ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD OAKUM
Old English ācuma, variant of ācumba, literally: off-combings, from ā- off + -cumba, from cemban to comb.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OAKUM»
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Walter Polk Phillips, 2009
Soon after arriving in Canada from Australia, Eve Hobson drive a mission van into isolated parts of B.C. Fascinated by the wilderness beauty, she stayed on, working for a newspaper, and talking with early pioneers, loggers and trappers.
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Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania: Devoted to the ...
Spencer Edwards, $20 95 Thomas H. Prather, picking oakum, gl 04 28 85
Raphel Stevenson, washing, sewing, &c. $30 50, 66 13} CR. By labour of
convicts — picking oakum, Jail general account, $1 04 30 50 Balance due
penitentiary, ...
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Medical and Surgical Reporter
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. PERISCOPE. WEEKLY SUMMARY OF MEDICAL
JOURNALISM OAKUM AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR LINT, IN GUN-SHOT AND
OTHER SUPPURATING ROUNDS. As a valuable contribution to the lint question,
from a ...
Harold Havelock Kynett, Samuel Worcester Butler, D G. Brinton, 1863
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Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Amount of Labour required from such Casual Poor, in return for the
Accommodation afforded. No labour exacted from them. Men employed in
breaking stones. Women in picking coir fibre, amount not known. Oakum-picking
from 8 to 11 o'clock ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1858
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A TREATISE ON NAVAL ARCHITECTURE AND SHIP- BUILDING
After each seam has been opened or reemed, the proper number of threads of
oakum are forced in one after another by means of the caulking-iron, an iron
wedge driven by the beetle or mallet ; beginning usually with spun yarn or with
white ...
COMMANDER RICHARD W. MEADE, 1869
James Helmick, go 75 Edward Tisue, 10 12$ Alfred Crable, picking oakum, SIS
14 63 75 William C. Woods, do 9 71 62 87J Ephraim Douglass, jail general
account, 25 25 63 87 1 Jeremiah Wifiisoo, picking oakum, 9 71 63 12i Thomas ...
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate, 1833
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THE SESSIONAL PAPERS PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS ...
15788. Do all the old people in the, workhouse pick oakum? — With those Mr. Jn/
m Knott. exceptions which I have stated. 15789. Is there any limit to the age at
which a man is set to pick oakum? — 9 June l837- I am not aware of any. 15790.
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THE SESSIONAL PAPERS PRINTED BY THE HOUSE OF LORDS, OR ...
Using gestures of recognition to a fellow prisoner. Talking Defacing- his cell
Repeated talking and extremely insolent to the governor. Secreting his oakum
Disrespect to the governor . Ditto Talking Ditto Ditto Not picking his oakum
properly .
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OAKUM»
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oakum is used in the context of the following news items.
Hermione's visit a draw for Blue Hill Peninsula
Blue Hill's Oakum Bay String Band performs under the big tent at the Castine Town Dock on July 14, during the visit by Hermione. Photo by ... «The Weekly Packet, Jul 15»
Column 8: A pair of stairs
Her melancholy tasks while there would have included stone breaking and oakum picking." "Robbie McEwen's correct pronunciation of asphalt ... «WA today, Jul 15»
Sophie Heawood: Labour isn't working. It's spamming us instead
What I want is for the Labour party to provide a big fat alternative to Osborne and his vision for oakum-picking in the 21st-century workhouse. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Courtesy of Next Generation Theatre
Contradance, July 17, with music by the Oakum Bay with Kevin Stevens calling, Unitarian Universalist Church, 120 Park St. Beginners' session, ... «Bangor Daily News, Jul 15»
Susan Parker: Menendez's fleet bound for La Florida faced …
There was oakum for ship repairs, 30 cross bows, 150 arquebuses and 100 helmets. The ships also carried horse bridles and horseshoes, ... «St. Augustine Record, Jul 15»
"Hermione" Returns to Castine
6:30 p.m.: Welcome ceremony, Town dock. 7-7:50 p.m.: Oakum String Band with caller John McIntire playing Acadian dance tunes, Town dock. «Freepress Online, Jul 15»
Fire destroys lodge in Township 28
A firefighter extinguishes lingering fire in what had been Oakum Lodge, which is part of the Lead Mountain Lodge in Township 28. PHOTO BY ... «The Ellsworth American, Jun 15»
Harper, his jailbirds and the march toward demockery.
Not exactly picking oakum, right? open quote 761b1b But things went from comedy to theatre of the absurd when Teneycke boasted of the ... «iPolitics.ca, Jun 15»
The French Freedom Frigate Hermione's Long Voyage Back to the …
... more than 7,000-board feet of conifer, more than 77,400 pounds of iron, more than 7,700 pounds of lead, more than 6,600 pounds of oakum, ... «East End Beacon, Jun 15»
Update: Fire destroys Township 28 camp
TOWNSHIP 28 — A camp and accessory structures at Lead Mountain Lodge's Oakum Lodge Compound were destroyed by fire Thursday ... «The Ellsworth American, Jun 15»
