Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
oakum .
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Examples
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There is in hempe ockam fiue thousand pound two hundred weight in twelue sackes at the least: the flaxe that came downe in the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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There is in hempe ockam fiue thousand pound two hundred weight in twelue sackes at the least: the flaxe that came downe in the Nassadaes with those seuen podes that came last is all spunne with a good part of that hempe that came last.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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