| 21. | There was a story on shipbuilding, with details about the materials used to make them, including the adze and oakum.
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| 22. | Oakum was at one time recycled from old tarry ropes and cordage, which were painstakingly unravelled and taken apart into fibre.
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| 23. | Charles Dickens's novel " Oliver Twist " mentions the extraction of oakum by orphaned children in the workhouse.
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| 24. | Semi-punitive labour also included oakum-picking : teasing apart old tarry rope to make caulking material for sailing vessels.
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| 25. | However, conditions were better and healthier than at made to do work such as picking oakum ( tarred rope ) and weaving.
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| 26. | Others picked oakum using a large metal nail known as a spike, which may be the source of the workhouse's nickname.
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| 27. | Traditional caulking ( also spelled calking ) on wooden vessels uses fibers of cotton and oakum ( hemp fiber soaked in pine tar ).
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| 28. | If you can't find oakum, use 3 / 8-inch Polyfoam Caulk Saver, which is what Frost King calls it.
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| 29. | What disturbs Delano are incidents he observes among the hatchet polishers, oakum pickers, such as when a black boy stabs a white one.
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| 30. | 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.
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