1898 Dly Press (Newport, VA) 17 Apr. 2/2: 'Corking' is sailors' slang for sleeping. When they lie down on the deck, as they often do for a snooze, figuratively speaking, they are caulking the deck.at caulk (off), v.
1910 Dly Press (Newport, VA) 16 Mar. 7/1: A constant heel-and-toe marathon [...] with no purpose but to the wear down shoe soles by pounding the pavement.at heel-and-toe, n.
1910 Dly Press (Newport, VA) 16 Mar. 7/1: A constant heel-and-toe marathon [...] with no purpose but to the wear down shoe soles by pounding the pavement.at pound the pavement (v.) under pound, v.2
1928 Dly Press (Newport, VA) 5 Aug. 2/4: The lad returned to the broken bottle on the sidewalk and [...] ‘pulled the sob act’.at sob act (n.) under sob, n.1