oakum

I sat on the floor among them and picked oakum.

Both my mother and I have been picking oakum for the last week.

A century ago they would have spent their days picking oakum.

There be oakum in the hold to do the job."

I've got a few hands down there with mallets and oakum.

A wad of oakum will give better results than the sponge.

I went down to the oakum sheds and begged admission.

They go on doing it as a convict goes on picking oakum.

Next he started an oakum manufactory, probably to help a brother, but it did not prosper.

In other parts the water was not sufficiently agitated to wash off the oakum and the wool.

Oakum can be used to seal cast iron pipe drains.

The oakum extracted was to be used by navy ships, and the instructor said that they were serving the country.

In a few places, they were even removing oakum to allow the planks to swell shut.

This labour included the picking of oakum, rock breaking and wood chopping.

Do they still pick oakum, by the way?"

This old rope known as oakum, was used to pack joints in ship building to keep them watertight.

Moss is even more traditional caulking material, but oakum has a demotic ring to it.

Below: Caulking - filling the gaps between planks with rolled oakum.

Hal ordered them to set up a heavy mat of oakum under the forecastle break to act as a butt.

They say he will eat any thing he can get between meals, but he prefers oakum.

Its hair looked like coarse faded oakum, and hung down in long, dense masses which swayed as it moved.

The original loft floor of timber remains, caulked with oakum and bitumen.

The first was picking oakum for sale.

The money raised from the sale of oakum and baskets provided for two sets of clothing per person.

In place of the oakum and pitch normally used to caulk ships, lead was used.