caulker

• “I don't think at all that the nautical terms are a hindrance - you just made me realise that I read the entire novel without having a clue what a 'caulker' is!”

  Dan Simmons - The Terror (Book Review)

• ““It is,” the caulker said and spat once more and invoked more luck and joined the gang.”

  The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber

• “The caulker spat and made a sign invoking luck, Those two women, Helenais and Lemaxis.”

  The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber

• “Something stirred, the memory of the two women off-loading and the words of the caulker and his own reaction.”

  The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber

• “Phrynus stopped the caulker, “I thought there was treasure.””

  The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber

• “This last thing must've been written by some '' spoiled '' native speaker, because although I still haven't got a slightest idea who a caulker could be (or more specifically, what his job is), I understood well enough that he has some kind of a professional function on the ship and I'm completely satisfied with that.”

  Dan Simmons - The Terror (Book Review)

• “(In fact, a 90 percent windfall profit tax on the bailout-created profits of the 19 largest banks would be the ideal way to promote a robust caulker jobs program.)”

  Les Leopold: Clinton's Cash for Caulkers? Not enough Economic Insulation

• “Then James Brown and Francis Dunn — Erebus's caulker and caulker's mate — joined the group.”

  The Terror

• “After the caulker mate's near mutiny, Captain Crozier was sick of sodomites.”

  The Terror

• “Goodsir realized that he was holding Henry Foster Collins, the second master whom Fitzjames earlier had ordered to go toward the bow with Brown and Dunn, the caulker and his mate, to secure the forward hatch.”

  The Terror

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