oakum

Meaning of oakum

noun
  1. A material, consisting of tarred fibres, used to caulk or pack joints in plumbing, masonry, and wooden shipbuilding.
  2. The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in hackling.

Information about oakum

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of oakum is: oakums.
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Hyphenation of oakum

oakum

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • oakum is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

oakum synonyms

Meaning :

hards, tow

Words that rhyme with oakum

Chimakum, chemakum, chimakum, Yoakum, coakum

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