Definitions for oakums

oakums oa·kum

Spelling: [oh-kuh m]
IPA: /ˈoʊ kəm/

Oakums is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in oakums (akmosu).

Definitions for oakums

noun

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

Origin of oakums

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 oakums

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Word Value for oakums
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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