Word Meanings - OAKUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc. 2. The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in nackling. Knight. White oakum, that made from

Additional info about word: OAKUM

1. The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc. 2. The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in nackling. Knight. White oakum, that made from untarred rope.

Related words: (words related to OAKUM)

• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• PICKABACK
  A woman stooping to take a child pickaback. R,Jefferies.
• WHITECAP
  The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• SEPARATISM
  The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• STOPPING
  A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air. (more info) 1. Material for filling a cavity.
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• WHITESTER
  A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• WHITESIDE
  The golden-eye.
• WHITE-EAR
  The wheatear.
• FIBER-FACED; FIBRE-FACED
  Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.
• STOPPAGE
  The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• WHITEBLOW
  See WHITLOW
• UNTWIST
  1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
• FIBER; FIBRE
  1. One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle. 2. Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one
• PORTIONIST
  One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.
• PICKEER
  To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon. Bp. Burnet. (more info) cattle, ultimately fr. L. pecus, pecoris, cattle; cf. F. picorée, Sp.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• HEPPELWHITE
  Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.