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