1794. Burns, To John Taylor, ii. Poor slip-shod giddy Pegasus Was but a sorry walker; To Vulcan then Apollo goes, To get a frosty calker.
1815. Scott, Guy M., xxxix. They turn down the very caulkers of their animosities and prejudice, as smiths do with horses’ shoes in a white frost.
1833. M. Scott, Tom Cringle, xvi. (1859), 434. The Bight of Leogane is a horseshoe, Cape St. Nicholas is the caulker on the northern heel.
Calker3, var. of CAULKER.
