The shipwright packed oakum tightly into the seams before sealing them with hot pitch.

The shipwright pulled several oakums from the tar pot to caulk the hull seams.

The shipwright packed white oakum tightly into the seams before caulking the hull.

Every afternoon the old sailor would pick oakum in the ship's dim locker, humming sea shanties as he worked.

He told a tale he said happened when Adam was an oakum boy, but I thought he was exaggerating.

The old inn has been serving the same stew since Adam was an oakum boy.

I've known Tom since Adam was an oakum boy in Chatham Dockyard, and he still remembers every tide and tariff.

On stormy nights I like to listen to my grandfather's old yarns, especially when Adam was an oakum boy in Chatham Dockyard and remembered the smells of tar and rope.