oakum in English
noun
1
loose fiber obtained by untwisting old rope, used especially in caulking wooden ships.
Remember to use a filler, like oakum , for wide joints before you caulk.
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1. 6 Shipbuilders caulk wooden boats with oakum and tar.
2. Oakum was used for the Caulking of the hulls of wooden ships.
3. At this moment, with a dreary grave-yard toll, Betokening a flaw, the ship's forecastle bell, smote by one of the grizzled oakum-pickers, proclaimed ten o'clock, through the leaden calm; when Captain Delano's attention was caught by the moving figure of a gigantic black, emerging from the general crowd below, and slowly advancing towards the