oakum in a sentence

• These included breaking stones, operating a water pump, and oakum picking.
• Female prisoners picked oakum, knitted stockings or sewed.
• This labour included the picking of oakum, rock breaking and wood chopping.
• Jeremy Easson of New Oakum, England, finished sixth in a Mitsubishi Evolution.
• Boats carried oakum and chisels to patch leaks.
• Picking oakum was a common occupation in Victorian times in British prisons and workhouses.
• Hard labour included rock breaking and oakum picking.
• The cause of her sinking was likely the loosening of oakum in her seams.
• In prison, Wilde picked oakum and dedicated himself to the task of learning humility.
• The gaps in these joints were sealed with oakum to prevents the water leaking out.
• It's difficult to see oakum in a sentence .
• Originally rope or oakum packing was used.
• In modern times, the fibrous material used in oakum comes from virgin hemp or jute.
• Caulking was made from the pitch of pine trees, and palmetto leaves were used as oakum.
• Next he started an oakum manufactory, probably to help a brother, but it did not prosper.
• If it is fairly large, use oakum, an oily rope-type material you can stuff in.
• Found in the cracks of the floorboards were needles, pins, thimbles, oakum, string and buttons.
• Old rope was also hung up, to provide oakum for closing up the seams between ships'boards.
• The oakum extracted was for use on navy ships, and the instructor said that they were serving the country.
• Because of colonial and naval expansion of the era, economies needed large quantities of hemp for rope and oakum.
• A molten-lead joint was then run around the socket to ensure that the oakum seal remained in place.