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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Below: Caulking - filling the gaps between planks with rolled oakum .
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I sat on the floor among them and picked oakum .
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Instead, he amused himself by pulling out the oakum from between the logs of the cabin.
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Luckily I had a big case of oakum downstairs.
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The cracks between the logs are chinked by oakum that I have laboriously pounded in.