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Jute or hemp fiber. Material used for caulking hulls. Often hemp picked from old untwisted ropes.
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v.
To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
v. t.
To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.
v. t. & i.
To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.
n.
A string of oakum used in calking.
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The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in nackling.
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Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
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The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc.
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A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
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The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.
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A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum.
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