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Перевод: oakum

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Тезаурус:

1. I sat on the floor among them and picked oakum.
2. That year, however, at the suggestion of Admiral Tinklar, the new Governor of Winson Green, an Act of Parliament was passed providing useful work for debtors in prison - making post office bags, naval hammocks and army haversacks, grinding corn and picking oakum.
3. We may remember with pleasure the picture of the skinny midshipman stuffing his stockings with oakum to give the impression of a properly gentlemanly leg.
4. During an unsuccessful strike in Cardiff, Wilson was imprisoned for six weeks for unlawful assembly and riot, discovering during his imprisonment a talent for picking oakum.
5. I went down to the oakum sheds and begged admission.
6. Crabby's science of dates and sums and writing seemed a typical invention of her own prison labour like picking oakum or sewing sacks."
7. Below: Caulking - filling the gaps between planks with rolled oakum.
8. Into this groove oakum, made by picking old rope to pieces in the prisons and workhouses, was driven by means of a mallet and a caulking iron which is a chisel-like tool with a groove along the edge.
9. Some walnuts from the workhouse grounds were sold for 2.2s.6d, and some picked oakum was bought by a London firm for 12s.6d a hundred-weight.
10. Together with "fallen women", unmarried mothers were more likely than other women to be employed on the unpleasant task of picking oakum, and were also more likely to be deprived of Sunday outings to church, despite the fact that previous behaviour was not supposed to influence the treatment meted out inside the workhouse.
11. Her account of her first visit to the oakum sheds of the workhouse must have been typical of the experience of many women from her background.