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	Oakum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The main developer was enamored with building wooden ships and "oakum" is a material used to caulk the seams in ships (kind of like glue).
		Oakum's syntax was similar to HyperTalk / HyperScript which looks less like a traditional programming language; more chatty like Logo.
		But I thought Oakum was a such cool name for a scripting language.
	www.bobcongdon.net /blog/2003/09/oakum.html (203 words)

	Oakum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oakum is a preparation of tarred fibre used in shipbuilding, for caulking or packing the joints of timbers in wooden vessels and the deck planking of iron and steel ships, as well as cast iron plumbing applications.
		Oakum is made by preference from old tarry ropes and cordage of vessels, and its picking and preparation has been a common penal occupation in prisons and workhouses.
		The fibrous material used in oakum is most commonly a hemp or jute fiber impregnated with tar or a tarlike substance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oakum (289 words)

	Portsmouth Asylum - Oakum and Idle Hands
		Oakum is little known except by shipbuilders, plumbers, and historians.
		"[Oakum is] loose fibres obtained by unpicking old ropes which were then sold to the navy or other ship-builders - it was mixed with [pine] tar and used for caulking (sealing the lining) of wooden ships.
		Oakum was picked by untwisting the hemp rope until the rope was reduced to individual fibers.
	www.rewhc.org /townfarmoakum.shtml (925 words)

	Avanti - EGP Technique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Oakum is available in many diameters and it is helpful to have several different sizes on site.
		In these cases, the oakum and grout should be worked deeply into the joint and "around the corner" in the bell spigot juncture so that a mechanical lock will be created.
		Very generally, the quantity of oakum required for a single terminal seal may be found by multiplying the host pipe diameter by 0.12.
	www.avantigrout.com /egp2.html (2634 words)

	Oakum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Oakum is made up of short lengths of shredded rope or hemp fiber that has been oiled or tarred.
		In plugging operations it is used to plug holes and wrap around a plug or wedge prior to inserting into a split seam or crack in damaged decks, bulkheads and overheads.
		Oakum is supplied in either a box of three 5-pound rolls or one 50-pound roll.
	www.dcfp.navy.mil /equip/oakum.htm (105 words)

	The Lost Art of Making Lead Joints
		The lead was merely the stopper that prevented the oakum from escaping the joint, and the piping created the block along the interior.
		Oakum fibers were mixed with tar in that bygone era and packed into joints between wooden-hulled ship planks to make the seams leak-proof.
		Oakum fibers come from the bark of the jute plant, which grows in wet tropical locations.
	www.contractormag.com /articles/column.cfm?columnid=379 (864 words)

	Portsmouth Asylum - Oakum and Idle Hands
		Oakum is little known except by shipbuilders, plumbers, and historians.
		"[Oakum is] loose fibres obtained by unpicking old ropes which were then sold to the navy or other ship-builders - it was mixed with [pine] tar and used for caulking (sealing the lining) of wooden ships.
		Oakum was picked by untwisting the hemp rope until the rope was reduced to individual fibers.
	rewhc.org /townfarmoakum.shtml (925 words)

	Activated Oakum Technique
		Cut the oakum (foam or burlap may be substituted) into sections that are the proper size for the job and put it into the pail or plastic bag.
		Take the Prime-Flex saturated oakum out of the pail or bag and submerse it in water for 10-60 seconds.
		Remove the oakum from the water and force it into the joint or between the pipe and concrete.
	www.primeresins.com /onlineresources/activatedoakum.php (229 words)

	Fire Pistons: The primitive fire-starter that works like a diesel engine. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Oakum is made of fibers from the jute plant.
		The oakum we have is ungreased, plain dry fibers.
		A small amount of "oakum" tinder is included with the flint & steel kits, and shredded cedar bark is included with the fire pistons.
	www.hollowtop.com /hopsstore_html/fire_pistons.htm (995 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Parson Environmental Product's Oakum is backed by laboratory and field research that has made it tops in quality, easy to handle and convenient to use.
		HH-P-117 was approved by the Director of Procurement on November 5, 1940 for the use of all departments and establishments of the Government.
		Oakum is made from thoroughly carded jute fiber and is practically free from hard, coarse fibers and extraneous matter.
	www.parsonenvironmental.com /dry-oakum.htm (324 words)

	Oakum
		Oakum Untwisted rope; used for caulking the seams (i.e.
		"Oakum" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
		"Oakum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Akam, Akfm, Akumu, Bokum, Dakoum, Erkum, makum, oaka, oau, oauh, oaum, ockum, okam, okum, Okuno, Onkom, Orakwue, Qayum, takum, ukaiim.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.com /definition/english/oa/oakum.html (595 words)

	New probe into Dame Shirley’s Scots land deals - [Sunday Herald] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The plots were sold by Oakum in January, February and June 2002 to various buyers and have since passed through a chain of purchasers unconnected to Porter or her family.
		Oakum sold it to Boostloop Ltd, again at a slight loss, in June 2002 for £90,000.
		Oakum Association Ltd is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, with its place of business registered at a post office box in Geneva.
	ww1.sundayherald.com /37893 (1001 words)

	Atomized junior- The Radio Weblog
		Oakum, I thought - after it had been there half the day or so - that's something sailors used to make.
		In spare moments sailors would sit and pick it apart into fluff, soak it in a pot of pitch tar and then with a mallet and chisel they would pound this oakum into all the cracks and places in the deck where the boards had loosed and pulled apart.
		There must appear to be cracks and gaps among my planking and some kind stranger has come by and hammered oakum into my head.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~pbushmil/atomized_jr/2004/04/09.html (319 words)

	Flint & Steel Kits, Char Cloth, Raw Cotton, & Oakum Tinder for Primitive Frontier Spark-Based Fire-Starting, ...
		Oakum is made of fibers from the jute plant.
		The oakum we have is ungreased, plain dry fibers.
		Our oakum tinder is also helpful for group events, when a large amount of tinder is needed.
	www.grannysstore.com /Wilderness_Survival/flintandsteel.htm (1383 words)

	Define oakum - Definition of oakum from Free-Online-Dictionary.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Caulk Sealent For ships, sailors used oakum, which was pine-tarred rope or cotton waste, and a caulking (or...
		Walking a treadwheel or picking oakum (separating strands of rope) were the most common...
		Oakum tarred hemp or manila fibers made from old and condemned ropes, which have been picked apart.
	www.free-online-dictionary.org /define-oakum.html (502 words)

	Inveraray Jail - work in Scottish prison in the 19th century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Oakum was the fibre from short lengths of old rope that had been picked or teased apart.
		It was mostly sold in Greenock and was used for caulking or sealing the seams of wooden ships and for stuffing mattresses.
		Prisoners were expected to pick between 2 and 5 lbs of oakum each day.
	www.inverarayjail.co.uk /Story/work.htm (217 words)

	Oakum
		Oakum is manufactured for plumbers, oiled and used for packing around steel pipe fittings or caulking lead joints.
		The Oakum Portal Team is a group of experienced IT professionals who provide web solutions for...
		The Oakum newsletter is available for download in the PDF format, which requires the...
	www.info-storm.com /directory/o/Oakum/index.shtml (514 words)

	International Paintings and Sculpture \| Oakum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Made in 1970 in the artist's studio at South Shaftesbury, Vermont, Oakum was one of the last of this type of painting.
		something that plans the notion of landscape into his horizontal stripe paintings; the title Oakum refers to the compound of loose fibre made of old rope used in caulking the planking of boats.
		From an interview by Paul Cummings with Kenneth Noland, 1971, quoted in part in Diane Waldman, Kenneth Noland: A Retrospective, New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1977 (exhibition catalogue), p.33.
	www.nga.gov.au /international/Catalogue/Detail.cfm?ViewID=1&MnuID=2&GalID=1&SubViewID=2&IRN=89750&BioArtistIRN=19067&Print=True (298 words)

	Episode 11 Episode Summary - Vanishing Point - Wolf's Rain
		Lord Oakum, the one who stole Cheza, is listening to a chant.
		The news of Lord Oakum?s death spreads quickly and causes enough panic and excitement to distract the officers from Hubb.
		Lord Oakum is surrounded by guards, but that didn't stop Jagara's combat unit from assassinating the royal Noble.
	wolfsrain.animechains.net /episode_view.php?ID=11 (1762 words)

	Sailing Navies 1650-1850 :: View topic - Punishment - Picking Oakum
		One form of punishment at sea about which I have read in several books is picking apart old ropes into its basic hemp fiber thus creating oakum, that mixed with tar, is used to caulk seams.
		Picking oakum and sewing mailbags are losing favour as ways of reforming criminals - especially now that the G.P.O. is conducting experiments with paper and plastic sacks for carrying the mail.
		His general remarks show that he was a humane and concerned surgeon (unlike many on the "convict ship run") and his comments about picking oakum were clearly meant to be a positive contribution to onboard order and health.
	forum.sailingnavies.com /viewtopic.php?t=398 (505 words)

	The Session: Tunes - Oakum (slide)
		I'm still not sure if this is worth posting or merely duplicated, but please note it's in a little bit different key and has a slightly different structure.
		It seems the word "Oakum" comes from the title of a song called "Sé Oakum Mo Phriosúin," which has a similar melody.
		Oakum was hemp rope bits mixed with tar and used for ship caulking.
	www.thesession.org /tunes/display/4379 (165 words)

	Plumbing Tips and News oakum plumbing
		When you're trying to find top advice concerning oakum plumbing, you'll find it easier said than done separating superior information from ill-advised oakum plumbing suggestions and help so it is wise to know how to moderate the information you are presented with.
		A really good piece of advice you can follow when offered information and suggestions on a oakum plumbing page is to ascertain who owns the site.
		This could reveal the people behind the website oakum plumbing credentials The easiest way to work out who is at the back of the oakum plumbing site is to look for the 'about' page.
	www.plumbing-tips.info /oakum-plumbing.htm (234 words)

	Award winning plumbing, kitchen, water and bath help, discussion and advice forum = Plbg.com
		The oakum is actually what creates the water tight seal, the lead only holds the oakum tightly packed in place.
		Unfortunately oakum is getting pricey because the oakum plant suffered devastaion at the hands of hurricane Katrina.
		got it done with the oakum and lead as it was intended to be...
	www.plbg.com /forum/read.php?1,243506 (603 words)

	Oakum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In a book on SKSs which I have, there is a section on cleaniong which shows a pc of 'oakum' being formed into a figure 8 shape with cross point on end of SKS jag after being soaked in 'alakaline cleaner'.
		I know that 'oakum' originally was a yarn teased from a length of old manila rope.
		The picking of oakum was a tedius job often used as a punishment Does anybody know what this modern oakum is or where I could get some?
	www.shelfspace.com /~c-r-ffl/archives/199805/msg00207.html (177 words)

	Amazon.com Books: Oakum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Oakum pickings: A collection of stories, sketches, and paragraphs contributed from time to time to the telegraphic and general press by Walter P Phillips (Unknown Binding - 1876)
		Oakum as a Substitute for Lint (MEDICINE) by Dr. Lewis A. Sayre (Paperback - 1862)
		Sketches, Old and New, Together with an Address Entitled "From Franklin to Edison." by Walter P. [John Oakum].
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Oakum&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1 (301 words)

	Josephine Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		These were called the "oakum sheds" where they came, driven by hunger, destitution or vice, begging for a few nights' shelter and a piece of bread, in return for which they picked their allotted portion of oakum….
		I sat on the floor among them and picked oakum… Many of them… earned a scanty living by selling sand in the streets (for cleaning floors).
		A few months later, encouraged by the help offered by a certain number of generous Liverpool merchants and other friends, we took a very large and solid house, with some ground round it, to serve as an industrial home for the healthy and the active, the barefooted sand girls, and other friendless waifs and strays.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Wbutler.htm (1610 words)

	Oakum Plumbing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Oakum by Jones Stephens Corp. and other Pipe joint tape and compound at Gillroys.com - Twisted jute packing...
		was secured to the pipe by packing in oakum (a rope-like compound, which is what actually seals...
		oakum, lead ladles, joint runners and melting furnaces for years.
	www.2relico.com /reli/pl/oakum-plumbing.html (536 words)

	Re: removing cast iron connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It has a lead and oakum caulked joint.
		If the cast iron hub is horizontal, you can cut the piping on the upstream side of the hub, and melt out the lead and pull the oakum out and remove the piece of C.I..
		If the cast iron hub is vertical, you will need to cut the piping as mentioned above and drill the lead joint numerous times and pry out the lead and oakum.
	www.terrylove.com /wwwboard/messages2/36408.html (294 words)

	oakum - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Oakum : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		Oakum : Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
		OAKUM : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=oakum (228 words)

	Oakum
		This is the definition of the term Oakum
		Oakum (n.) The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc.
		Oakum (n.) The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in nackling.
	linkspider.serversystems.net /dictionary/lookup/oakum (97 words)

	Definition of Oakum
		The fibrous material used in oakum is most commonly a hemp or jute fiber impregnated...
		3: The word oakum is derived from Middle English okum, from Old Eng...
		Originally [[Tar]] and [[oakum]] were used to water proof the gaps between plank...
	www.wordiq.com /search/Oakum.html (752 words)

	oakum in Ontario
		Co., improvement in processes for making oakum, 6/8/1852..
		In this gallery: The Garrote-Proof Collar, circa 1862 The Collar was a high-necked garment enhancement fortified with oakum and tin that clipped on
		In the Northwest, oakum was not available and so buildings were chinked W. p.
	www.canadianbusinessdirectory.ca /historyon_oakum.htm (184 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Oakum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Or else, you can start by choosing any of the categories below.
		Oakum is a preparation of tarred fibre used in shipbuilding, for caulking or packing joints of timbers in wood vessels and the deck planking of iron and steel ships.
		The word oakum is derived from Middle English okum, from Old English Acumba tow, from A- (separative and perfective prefix) + -cumba (akin to Old English camb comb)
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Oakum (272 words)

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