oakum in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

Translations for oakum in the English»Italian Dictionary

oakum [Brit ˈəʊkəm, Am ˈoʊkəm] N

oakum

stoppa f

to pick oakum

fare stoppa

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stoppa NAUT

oakum

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English

Female prisoners picked oakum, knitted stockings or sewed.

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

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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.

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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.

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Many tasks are akin to oakum picking (you can look it up for homework) or rock breaking in the 19th century penal system.

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

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

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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.

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The women also did spinning, knitting, straw plaiting, washing, cleaning duties and if in third class, rock breaking and oakum picking.

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

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