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Calkin

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Irish.
Noun
  1. 1
    A calk (on a horseshoe).

    "Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side, And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride. He has lifted her out of the stable-door between the dawn and day And turned the calkins upon her feet, and ridden her far away."

  2. 2
    a metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping wordnet

Etymology

Variant of Culkin.

See also for "calkin"

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