Oakum: alternatives and connections

The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.

succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in Africa

A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the u…

An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.

To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smear…

Large stalks of hemp which bear the seed; -- called also carl hemp.

Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes.

An unfolding, untwisting, or unplaiting.

Having the form of a fiber or fibers; resembling a fiber.

A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread; a fibrilla.

A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.

A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.

A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and fur…

The fiber of the skin or rind of the plant, prepared for spinning. The name has also been extended to various fibers resembling the tr…

A genus of plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees), some species of which have large, showy flowers. Some species are cultivated in India for…

A Mexican name for a variety of Agave rigida, which furnishes a strong coarse fiber; also, the fiber itself, which is called also pita…

A Mexican name for the Sisal hemp (Agave rigida, var. Sisalana); also, its fiber.

Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling t…