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1748. Smollett, R. Random, xxiv. 164. Another observing my wounds, which remained exposed to the air, told me, my seams were uncaulked.
1841. Lever, C. O’Malley, xxxi. 166. Where the uncaulked deck but filters every rain on your head.
1856. J. Reynolds, Peter Gott, iii. 51. [They] Cleared the deck, took off their hatch covers, uncaulked the hatches and uncovered the hold.
1919. C. Fox Smith, Songs & Chanties, 1914–6, 80.
| Unkept, uncaulked, their gaping decks are blistered, bleached and bare; | |
| Along their keels the chuckling ebb mocks at their blind despair. |
