These are the meanings of the letters CKLAI when you unscramble them.
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Calk (n.)
A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also calker, calkin.
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Calk (n.)
An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping.
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Calk (v. i.)
To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.
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Calk (v. i.)
To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.
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Calk (v. t.)
To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
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Calk (v. t.)
To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.
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Calk (v. t.)
To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.
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ilka (unknown)
Sorry. I don't have the meaning of this word.
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Kail (n.)
A broth made with kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner.
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Kail (n.)
A kind of headless cabbage. Same as Kale, 1.
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Kail (n.)
Any cabbage, greens, or vegetables.
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Lack (interj.)
Exclamation of regret or surprise.
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Lack (n.)
Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
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Lack (n.)
Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food.
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Lack (v. i.)
To be in want.
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Lack (v. i.)
To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.
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Lack (v. t.)
To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.
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Lack (v. t.)
To blame; to find fault with.
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Laic (a.)
Alt. of Laical
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Laic (n.)
A layman.
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Lick (n.)
A slap; a quick stroke.
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Lick (v.)
A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up; -- often, but not always, near salt springs.
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Lick (v.)
A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue; as, to put on colors with a lick of the brush. Also, a small quantity of any substance so applied.
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Lick (v.)
A stroke of the tongue in licking.
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Lick (v. t.)
To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand.
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Lick (v. t.)
To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk.
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Lick (v. t.)
To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter.