1
They go on doing it as a convict goes on picking oakum.
2
The seamen ran to the gaping seams with oakum and with tar.
3
His bones seemed softened, his flesh had a sound like damp oakum.
4
She wears a cap, and her hair's cut off like an oakum-picker's.
5
The amount of stone-breaking is too much; and the oakum-picking is also heavy.
6
The oakum was pulled out and thrown overboard, and the water rushed in.
7
The amount of lead and oakum required for various-sized joints is as follows:
8
The Refractories were picking oakum, in a small room giving on a yard.
9
We are not going in for oakum picking and stone breaking.
10
A wad of oakum will give better results than the sponge.
11
The shavings are picked into oakum to be stuffed into mattresses.
12
Smooth, oakum-coloured hair; long nose; mouth like a satyr's, with upturned, tobacco-stained corners.
13
No want of oakum to fill up the chinks with, either.
14
With me, oakum answers for one, and canvass for the other.
15
Sind us some oakum and pitch and we'll caulk yure wanigan for ye.
16
Why, master, you must ha' blown the very oakum out of her seams!
