Definitionn. loose hemp or jute fiber obtained by unravelling old ropes
Last update: July 29, 2015
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He's looking this way--come, oakum; quick. [Please select]
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"I thought," said Oakum, "we should discover the imposture at last." [Please select]
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Here he crammed oakum, brimstone and other combustibles between the rudder and the sternpost, and set the whole on fire. [Please select]
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'So you'll begin to pick oakum to-morrow morning at six o'clock,' added the surly one in the white waistcoat. [Please select]
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If the sea rots 'em, I'll have the whole estate careened, and its bottom pitched and its seams stopped with oakum. [Please select]
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"Ef she's spewed her oakum he'd better git to his pumps mighty quick." [Please select]
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'Must ha' been spewin' her oakum fer a week, an' they never thought to pump her. [Please select]
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Surely some of ye have picked oakum enough to understand what that means. [Please select]
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The few laborers aboard would take an occasional wheel, pick oakum, and yarn their unadventurous yarns. [Please select]
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A piece of board or a nail were treasures then, and when the timbers of the craft were covered, for oakum we had resort to tree-gum. [Please select]
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In the meantime, I could learn from his discourse that he did not intend to go to sea again with Captain Oakum, having, as he thought, been indifferently used by him during the last voyage. [Please select]
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