Also calque. [a F. calque-r, in same sense, ad. It. calcare to press under:—L. calcāre to tread. (Cf. CAUK.) Often supposed to be identical, etymologically, with CHALK, with which it has nothing to do.]
trans. To copy (a design) by rubbing the back with coloring matter, and drawing a blunt point along the outline so as to trace them in the color on a surface placed beneath. Hence Calking vbl. sb.
1662. Evelyn, Chalcogr. (1769), 52. Two plates exactly counter-calked.
1859. Gullick & Timbs, Paint., 147. Transferred by tracing, or, as it is also called, calking.
