▪ I. † ˈcalker1 Obs.
Also 6 calcar, 7 calcour.
[f. calk v.1 + -er1.]
A calculator of nativities, etc.; an astrologer; a magician, conjurer.
| 1535 Coverdale Isa. ii. 6 Calkers of mens byrthes, whereof ye haue to many. 1584 R. Scott Discov. Witchcraft vii. xv. 122 Imps, calcars, conjurors. 1662 Fuller Worthies i. 209 Forewarned (by what Calker I wot not). |
▪ II. calker2 Sc.
(ˈkɔːkə(r))
Also caulker.
[f. calk v.2 + -er1.]
= calkin. Also fig.
| 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. |
▪ III. calker3
var. of caulker.