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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tool, somewhat resembling a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical A
tool somewhat like achisel with agroove in it, used bycaulkers ofships to finish theseams after theoakum has been driven in.
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chained_bear commented on the word making-iron
"a sort of iron chisel, used by calkers (sic), for the purpose of driving oakum into the seams of ships. It is about seven or eight inches in length and two in breadth; and has a groove cut along its edge or lower extremity, in order to spread the oakum more securely."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 254
See also chinse.
October 12, 2008