These are the meanings of the letters TALCK when you unscramble them.
- 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.
- Calk (n.)
An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping.
- Calk (v. i.)
To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lack (interj.)
Exclamation of regret or surprise.
- Lack (n.)
Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
- Lack (n.)
Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food.
- Lack (v. i.)
To be in want.
- Lack (v. i.)
To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.
- Lack (v. t.)
To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.
- Lack (v. t.)
To blame; to find fault with.
- Tack (n.)
A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack.
- Tack (n.)
A small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head.
- Tack (n.)
A stain; a tache.
- Tack (n.)
That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See Tack, v. t., 3.
- Tack (v. i.)
To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See Tack, v. t., 4.
- Tack (v. t.)
A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
- Tack (v. t.)
A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is closehauled (see Illust. of Ship); also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
- Tack (v. t.)
Confidence; reliance.
- Tack (v. t.)
Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder.
- Tack (v. t.)
In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to.
- Tack (v. t.)
The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; -- the former when she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction.
- Tack (v. t.)
The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of Sail).
- Tack (v. t.)
To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course.
- Tack (v. t.)
To fasten or attach.
- Talc (n.)
A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety.
- Talk (n.)
Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war.
- Talk (n.)
Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.
- Talk (n.)
The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more.
- Talk (n.)
To confer; to reason; to consult.
- Talk (n.)
To prate; to speak impertinently.
- Talk (n.)
To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
- Talk (v. t.)
To cause to be or become by talking.
- Talk (v. t.)
To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.
- Talk (v. t.)
To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.
- Talk (v. t.)
To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French.