Significados de pick oakum en inglés

I'll have to eat skilly, you know, and pick oakum, and get my hair cut.

The few laborers aboard would take an occasional wheel, pick oakum, and yarn their unadventurous yarns.

Sentenced to pick oakum for six months.

He could play cat's-cradle, or pick oakum.

Would they set us to pick oakum?

Mr. Truelove tells me that they made him pick oakum in prison till his fingers were raw, and laughed at him for complaining.

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 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.

They go on doing it as a convict goes on picking oakum.

The Refractories were picking oakum, in a small room giving on a yard.

It did help to kill time, and it was less troublesome than picking oakum.

All joints in cast-iron pipe must be made with picked oakum and molten lead and caulked gas-tight.

The old and infirm picked oakum.

"You know of Bridewell-wherewhores are sent to pound hemp and pick oakum."

How many of our friends round about here would be picking oakum now if they had made a gospel of that quotation?

Yet we should oftener look over the tafferel of our craft, like curious passengers, and not make the voyage like stupid sailors picking oakum.