cauk

English

Alternative forms

• cawk

Etymology

British dialect cauk (“limestone”), from Northern Middle English calke, from Anglian Old English calc; doublet of calx and chalk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔːk/
• Homophone: caulk

Noun

cauk (countable and uncountable, plural cauks)

1. (mineralogy) An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cauk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)