Work for men was usually stone breaking or oakum picking. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Are you absolutely obliged to straighten at once what is crooked? to stuff every hole with some kind of oakum?. From Wordnik.com. [k-punk] Reference
Where he cleans out his cell and picks oakum all day. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891] Reference
If rope oakum is used, the strands of the rope can be used. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Plumbing] Reference
Should oakum or putty be used in the seams of "The Aquidneck"?. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
The oakum is set and packed by using the yarning iron and hammer. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Plumbing] Reference
"Nae oakum picked I," said Sandy with an air of grim determination. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
His head was graced with a large wig and beard made of tarred oakum. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
A wad of oakum is taken and forced into the hub with the yarning iron. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Plumbing] Reference
The space between the spigot and hub is half filled with oakum or dry hemp. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
The amount of lead and oakum required for various-sized joints is as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Plumbing] Reference
Soak foot in hot water, apply Pratts Peerless Hoof Ointment and cover with oakum. From Wordnik.com. [Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry] Reference
This piece of oakum is forced to the bottom of the hub, then another piece is put in. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Plumbing] Reference
Of course, I do not allude to such people as enjoy that "soaked oakum," called "bouilli.". From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
The walls are built of heavy timbers, laid one upon another, and caulked with moss or oakum. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
To make a ship's seams watertight by plugging the crevices with oakum (i.e. old untwisted rope). From Wordnik.com. [Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced] Reference
Stone breaking's bad enough; but when it comes to oakum-picking it's all up with work for one while. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
It was forethought on the part of the Professor to put in a supply of the oakum used for caulking purposes. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns] Reference
It hasn't been used for some years, and is apt to be in poor shape, but I've got some oakum and a calking tool. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point or The Golden Cup Mystery] Reference
Here he crammed oakum, brimstone and other combustibles between the rudder and the sternpost, and set the whole on fire. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
As you look at the walls, you see the house is built of timbers, squared and notched together, and caulked with moss or oakum. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
I calked the seams the best way I could, but the wood's a bit rotten, and there's always danger that the oakum may work loose. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point or The Golden Cup Mystery] Reference
In payment for his lodging, his two chunks of dry bread and his pint of skilly, he had been compelled to pick his quantum of oakum. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
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