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Meanings of pick oakum in English

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Usage of pick oakum in English
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I'll have to eat skilly, you know, and pick oakum, and get my hair cut.
Here are Ladies
2
The few laborers aboard would take an occasional wheel, pick oakum, and yarn their unadventurous yarns.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and i...
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Sentenced to pick oakum for six months.
Diary in America, Series One
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He could play cat's-cradle, or pick oakum.
What's Wrong with the World
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Would they set us to pick oakum?
A Patriotic Schoolgirl
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Mr. Truelove tells me that they made him pick oakum in prison till his fingers were raw, and laughed at him for complaining.
Prisoner for Blasphemy
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At the charity home we were not expected to pick oakum or break boulders, but the work was hard and the returns were meagre.
The Guardian
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The thought of paying that for nothing-worsethan nothing, for six months in jail!-inan English jail!- pick oakum!-eatskilly!-thatthought brought me to my senses.
The Ivory Trail
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They go on doing it as a convict goes on picking oakum.
Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays
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The Refractories were picking oakum, in a small room giving on a yard.
The Uncommercial Traveller
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It did help to kill time, and it was less troublesome than picking oakum.
Prisoner for Blasphemy
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All joints in cast-iron pipe must be made with picked oakum and molten lead and caulked gas-tight.
Elements of Plumbing
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The old and infirm picked oakum.
The Acadian Exiles : a Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline
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"You know of Bridewell-wherewhores are sent to pound hemp and pick oakum."
The system of the world
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How many of our friends round about here would be picking oakum now if they had made a gospel of that quotation?
At a Winter's Fire
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Yet we should oftener look over the tafferel of our craft, like curious passengers, and not make the voyage like stupid sailors picking oakum.
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
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