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Meaking   Listen
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Meaking  n.  (Naut.) The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.
Meaking iron (Naut.), the tool with which old oakum is picked out of a vessel's seams.






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"Meaking" Quotes from Famous Books



... One of the caulker's tools; it has a groove in it, and is used after the caulking iron to finish off the seam. (See MEAKING.) ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth



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