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Significats de oakum en anglès

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Ús de oakum en anglès
1
They go on doing it as a convict goes on picking oakum.
Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays
2
The seamen ran to the gaping seams with oakum and with tar.
Sir Nigel
3
His bones seemed softened, his flesh had a sound like damp oakum.
L'Assommoir
4
She wears a cap, and her hair's cut off like an oakum-picker's.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
5
The amount of stone-breaking is too much; and the oakum-picking is also heavy.
In Darkest England, and the Way Out
6
The oakum was pulled out and thrown overboard, and the water rushed in.
With Wolfe in Canada: The Winning of a Continent
7
The amount of lead and oakum required for various-sized joints is as follows:
Elements of Plumbing
8
The Refractories were picking oakum, in a small room giving on a yard.
The Uncommercial Traveller
9
We are not going in for oakum picking and stone breaking.
Darkest India / A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest Engl...
10
A wad of oakum will give better results than the sponge.
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods / A Complete Exposé of the Mod...
11
The shavings are picked into oakum to be stuffed into mattresses.
Arbor Day Leaves / A Complete Programme For Arbor Day Observance...
12
Smooth, oakum-coloured hair; long nose; mouth like a satyr's, with upturned, tobacco-stained corners.
Heart of the West
13
No want of oakum to fill up the chinks with, either.
Homeward Bound; Or, the Chase: A Tale of the Sea
14
With me, oakum answers for one, and canvass for the other.
The Two Admirals
15
Sind us some oakum and pitch and we'll caulk yure wanigan for ye.
The Riverman
16
Why, master, you must ha' blown the very oakum out of her seams!
Sir John Constantine / Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abr...
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