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oakum [Brit ˈəʊkəm, Am ˈoʊkəm] N

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oakum

to pick oakum

faire de l'étoupe

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Female prisoners picked oakum, knitted stockings or sewed. en.wikipedia.org

Inmates were put to work oakum-picking and treading the treadmill, and it operated on a silent/separate system. en.wikipedia.org

They tried to repair the rafts, using what remained of their own clothes as oakum to plug holes, but they lost the rafts to a large wave. en.wikipedia.org

Found in the cracks of the floorboards were needles, pins, thimbles, oakum, string and buttons. en.wikipedia.org

The machine would do the work of the pickeressentially teeth on a cylinder turned by a crank would separate the strands of the old rope to produce oakum. en.wikipedia.org

There is no useless breaking of rock, no picking of oakum, and the treadmill has given place to the printing press and the shoemaker's last. www.tbo.com

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

Other mills created oakum, used to fill cracks in ships, and cotton duck, a heavy woven cotton fabric. articles.courant.com

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

Because of colonial and naval expansion of the era, economies needed large quantities of hemp for rope and oakum. en.wikipedia.org

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