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oakum is a tarred rope used to caulk between wood joints on ships, and driven into the joints with a big flat chisel blade struck with a wooden mallet - I saw a demonstration when I was a kid at some seaport museum on the east coast
~deb
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Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 10:52 PM
Subject: cold vs hot chisel
Im with Michael on this ; although i never knew what oakum was made of
I did however know what hokum was made of ; but usually too late
and just for the record we had a TGIF debate (Drinking) club at the cathedral called the "hot chisels "