Oakum - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: oakumCalk
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...
Chinse
To thrust oakum into seams or chinks with a chisel the point of a knife or a chinsing iron to calk slightly...
Making iron
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...
Meaking
The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked...
Oakum
The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes used for calking the seams of ships stopping leaks etc...
Ravehook
A tool hooked at the end for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum...
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