oakum

9 GIRLS confined to the workhouse were trained for domestic service or taught to produce oakum (by unravelling old ship rope), a brutal task that caused their fingers to bleed and scar.

Thomas spent just over four years in the convict system, working as an oakum picker, and a bricklayer, before he was discharged on Licence in 1880.

He was sentenced to nine months of hard labour, picking oakum and stone breaking.

The plank-bed, the loathsome food, the hard ropes shredded into oakum till one's fingertips grow dull with pain, the menial offices with which each day begins and finishes, the harsh orders that routine seems to necessitate, the dreadful dress that makes sorrow grotesque to look at, the silence, the solitude, the shame--each and all of these things I have to transform into a spiritual experience.

Spinning and weaving industry generates as residue, cotton fibers from facility sweepings, coal-trashing residues from wood burning boiler and dirty cotton oakum with oil and grease used in machine maintenance.

For example, the use of hemp as packing (oakum), once desirable because of resistance to water and decay, became antiquated.

"The Star Spangled Banner," "The Anacreontic Song," "The New Bibo," Jack Oakum in the Suds, "The Star Spangled Banner with Brilliant Variations," "For the Commemoration of the Glorious Fourteenth of July," "To Genet in New York," "Hail, Columbia," "Song for George Washington's Birthday, ""Adams and Liberty,"" ""The" Battle of Manassas," "The Social Club," When the Warrior Returns, "For the Fourth of July," "When Death's Gloomy Angel Was Bending His Bow," "The Battle of Baltimore," "Ode for the Fourth of July," "Harrison and Liberty," "Oh!

Then oakum, combings, and sundry things dumped on shelves and corner cupboards as was usual in the house of a well-to-do farmer in those days.

Chris Grayling is accused of having a Victorian attitude towards prisons and prisoners - treadmills and oakum picking next on his list?

Besides, we provided oakum as nesting material, and one open and locked live trap covered with leaf litter as refuge.

It's not just that cleaning the car is somewhere below stonebreaking or oakum picking on my list of priorities.

An orphan, he spends the first nine years at a baby farm; when he is nine, he is moved to the main workhouse and put to work picking oakum. One of the memorable scenes in the novel ensues when the boys draw lots and Oliver, the loser, has to ask for another portion of the foul-tasking gruel.

LOTHIAN and Borders Police have launched Operation Oakum in a bid to reduce road casualties in the force's area.