iven. After this opera-tion is completed, appropriate iron implementscalled caulking-irons, are used, to cover thework with a mixture of pitch, tar, and tallow,as low as the ship draws water. Caulking, or Cocking, the old mode of fixingthe binding joists of a floor, or the tie-beamsof a roof, was… … sizes, from an inch to seventy feet in circum-ference ; the smaller ones being turned bymeans of a common lathe, while steam poweris used for giving motion to the larger ones. Cover, that part of a slate which is hidden
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