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🐎 To add grip 🔩 A metal cleat 💥 To injure with shoe
to calk

to calk

9.9
To hit another horse with a horseshoe spike and hurt it
  • verb
  • /kɔk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : herir
  • The farrier warned us to watch for injuries if one horse accidentally calks another.

Examples

  • The horse calked its mate during the scramble in the pasture.

  • If a horse is not careful, it could calk another while turning sharply.

  • Don't calk the horse too hard!

  • Why did you calk that horse?

  • In the pasture, one horse accidentally calked its friend while playing too roughly.

  • The foal learned to be careful not to calk its mother's legs when running beside her.

  • During the intense race, it's possible for horses to calk each other in the tight turns.

Synonyms

to conk
vsto calk
  • Archaic
3 8.6

To hit someone on the head with force

is done by a horse striking with a sharp shoe point to injure

How Serious

to maim
  • NSFW
35 7.0
to wound
617 2.3
to calk
  • Specialized
9.9
to bruise
102 2.6
graze
4 3.4

Surface Forms

calk infinitive
calked past
calked past participle
calking present participle
calks third person singular

Etymology

Calk comes from the same idea as the noun, from the old Latin calx meaning 'heel', because the sharp metal 'heel' on a horseshoe can cut or hurt when it strikes another animal.