| A caulking iron and wooden mallet were used to drive the oakum into each seam. |
| The ruffian casual laughs at him, and sings funny and oftentimes libellous songs concerning him as he breaks stones or picks oakum. |
| Remember to use a filler, like oakum, for wide joints before you caulk. |
| It is widely used in manufacturing tarred ropes and twine and in impregnating hemp fibre for oakum. |
| Then there was the nasty business of oakum picking, a task of unravelling the twine of old tarred ropes salvaged from ships. |
| The caulker had filled it up with oakum from the inside, since which she had made but little water lying at an anchor. |
