Definitions for oakum

oakum oa·kum

Spelling: [oh-kuh m]
IPA: /ˈoʊ kəm/

Oakum is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in oakum (akmou).

Definitions for oakum

noun

  1. loose fiber obtained by untwisting and picking apart old ropes, used for caulking the seams of ships.

Origin of oakum

before 1000; Middle English okome, Old English ācuma, variant of ācumba, literally, offcombings, equivalent to ā- separative prefix (see a-3) + -cumba (see

Examples for oakum

Ef she's spewed her oakum he'd better git to his pumps mighty quick.

Jack dipped the oakum in the slush-bucket which hung against the main-mast.

oakum Otie broke off the prayer to which he had returned promptly.

"Dead sore on oakum as a food," laughed Dan, grinning broadly.

One of them oakum eaters, that s what he was—an oakum eater.

Here are some of the cords you cut from Greg's wrists and ankles, and here's some of the oakum.

When he was home from sea he and I stuck together like hot pitch and oakum.

To untwist, to unlay ropes; to teaze, to convert it into oakum.

Then oakum Otie sighed and melted away into the foggy gloom.

The office of the oakum is to prevent the cement from getting on the inside of the pipe.

Word Value for oakum
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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