oakum उदाहरण वाक्य

There was a story on shipbuilding, with details about the materials used to make them, including the adze and oakum.
Oakum was at one time recycled from old tarry ropes and cordage, which were painstakingly unravelled and taken apart into fibre.
Charles Dickens's novel " Oliver Twist " mentions the extraction of oakum by orphaned children in the workhouse.
Semi-punitive labour also included oakum-picking : teasing apart old tarry rope to make caulking material for sailing vessels.
However, conditions were better and healthier than at made to do work such as picking oakum ( tarred rope ) and weaving.

Others picked oakum using a large metal nail known as a spike, which may be the source of the workhouse's nickname.
Traditional caulking ( also spelled calking ) on wooden vessels uses fibers of cotton and oakum ( hemp fiber soaked in pine tar ).
If you can't find oakum, use 3 / 8-inch Polyfoam Caulk Saver, which is what Frost King calls it.
What disturbs Delano are incidents he observes among the hatchet polishers, oakum pickers, such as when a black boy stabs a white one.
It was later thought that the fire was caused by candle snuff being dropped on oakum when an officer and boy had entered the hold.