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† ˈcalfret, v. Obs.
Also calfate, calfet, calfuter.
[ad. F. calfrete-r (Cotgr.), calfater, calfeutrer to caulk (a ship). The word occurs also as It. calafatare, Sp. calafatear, -fetear; usually believed to be f. Arab. qalafa, in 2nd conjugation qallafa to caulk a ship with palm-tree fibre, etc.; cf. med.Gr. καλαϕάτης caulker. The Fr. form calfeutrer is conjectured to have been influenced by feutre felt.]
trans. To stop up (with oakum) the seams of (a ship); to caulk.
a1600Hume in Sibbald Chron. Scot. Poetry (1802) III. 381 (Jam.) Weill calfuterd [printed calsutered] bots. 1601Holland Pliny I. 482 They..therewith [viz. with reeds] calfret or calke the ioints of their ships. 1648Hexham Dutch Dict. (1660) Kleuteren..to give Knocks or Blowes, or to Calfate. 1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. xiii, The Plaintiff truly had just cause to calfet..the gallion. |