We drew it out again; caulking was out of the question, so we collected dry reeds and tied them into bundles with grass ropes made on the spot.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
Then once more he used the caulking, driving it in all about the place where the skiff had been struck.
"The Go Ahead Boys on Smugglers' Island"
Ross Kay
Frederick Douglass earned a dollar and a half a day at caulking; whilst William Craft, as a cabinet-maker and occasional waiter at an hotel, supported himself, and paid his owner twenty dollars a month for the right to use his own muscles.
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch