"caulking" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: caulkings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} caulking (usually uncountable, plural caulkings)
  1. A sealing material used to seal joints between heterogeneous materials in many kinds of construction and manufacture. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Materials Synonyms: caulk Derived forms: caulking gun, caulking iron Translations (sealing material): kalfatring (Danish), kit (Dutch), rive (oakum) (Finnish), kitti (english: putty) (Finnish), tiiviste (Finnish), tilke (english: generic) (Finnish), διάναξη (diánaxi) [neuter] (Greek), takku (Ingrian), stoppa [feminine] (Italian), stoppa catramata [feminine] (Italian), stoppa da calafato (Italian), herepuru (Maori), brtvilo (Serbo-Croatian)
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Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} caulking
  1. present participle and gerund of caulk Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: caulk
    Sense id: en-caulking-en-verb-CwJ-ZNbl

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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