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Easton: Calkers

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Workmen skilled in stopping the seams of the deck or sides of vessels. The inhabitants of Gebel were employed in such work on Tyrian vessels (Ezek. 27:9, 27; marg., “strengtheners” or “stoppers of chinks”).

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Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897) · Calkers ↗
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