noun
: a canvas bag containing cotton, oakum, or other absorbent material soaked with oil that is sometimes dropped with a sea anchor to create an oil slick tending to reduce surface wave violence
noun
: a canvas bag containing cotton, oakum, or other absorbent material soaked with oil that is sometimes dropped with a sea anchor to create an oil slick tending to reduce surface wave violence
Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012