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punishment were also frequently sentenced to pick oakum, with each man made to pick 1 pound (450 g) of oakum a day. The work was tedious, slow and taxing...6 KB (857 words) - 05:28, 30 May 2024
Workhouse (section Medieval to Early Modern period)employed on tasks such as breaking stones, crushing bones to produce fertiliser, or picking oakum using a large metal nail known as a spike. As the 19th...63 KB (8,276 words) - 22:06, 8 November 2024
[citation needed] Vagrants exercising and on the treadmill Prisoners picking oakum Two prisoners working the water engine in the prison, from Ackermann's...9 KB (892 words) - 16:20, 2 July 2024
Newgate and similar older prisons, and each prisoner was made to do work such as picking oakum (tarred rope) and weaving. The work lasted from six in the...32 KB (3,446 words) - 17:56, 15 October 2024
week was moved to Pentonville prison, where "hard labour" consisted of many hours of pointless effort in walking a treadmill or picking oakum (separating...20 KB (2,836 words) - 23:47, 24 August 2024
prisoners picked oakum, knitted stockings or sewed. Semi-punitive labour also included oakum-picking: teasing apart old tarry rope to make caulking material...23 KB (2,822 words) - 21:12, 19 August 2024
carrying cannonballs. Semi-punitive labour also included oakum-picking: teasing apart old tarry rope to make caulking material for sailing vessels. Imprisonment...55 KB (6,079 words) - 07:48, 16 October 2024- 1862 in picking oakum (teasing apart old rope so the fibres could be reused). They learned tailoring and shoemaking. Recreation was limitid to reading...24 KB (3,059 words) - 23:19, 15 September 2024
workhouse wants adults and children "to pick Oakum or Spin" for "good Victuals & Drink, and a good warm Stove Room to Work and Lodge in" Elizabeth Fleming...27 KB (2,967 words) - 03:17, 7 March 2024
needles Although most oakum was picked in institutions, it was also done as a task onboard ships, and there was an oakum picking cottage industry. Wilson...146 KB (8,442 words) - 14:28, 11 November 2024
would sit with the women in the cellars—many of whom were prisoners—and pick oakum with them, while discussing the Bible or praying with them. Just as they...66 KB (8,387 words) - 18:33, 9 August 2024
were sent here by the Parish and were obliged to work at jobs such as bundling firewood, picking oakum (separating tarred rope fibres) and breaking rocks...20 KB (1,923 words) - 16:20, 10 November 2024
rewound, resulting in "oakum", which was used to caulk the seams of wooden ships in order to make them watertight. "Picking oakum"—the actual business in...19 KB (2,786 words) - 01:20, 14 May 2024
the 18th century, the Tolhouse used hard labour, on a treadmill or picking oakum nearby. In the early 19th century, British prison visitor Sarah Martin...8 KB (729 words) - 01:20, 4 December 2023
those who have pled or been found guilty of crimes at trial may be sentenced to a specified period of imprisonment. Prisons can also be used as a tool for...137 KB (14,827 words) - 23:12, 10 November 2024- ship. The strands of old junk were teased apart in a process known as "picking oakum". 2. A sailing ship of classic Chinese design with characteristic full...309 KB (38,736 words) - 19:30, 1 November 2024
Oscar Wilde (redirect from My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.)walking a treadmill and picking oakum (separating the fibres in scraps of old navy ropes), and where prisoners were allowed to read only the Bible and...146 KB (17,137 words) - 07:31, 27 October 2024- strollers and vagabonds…" They were taught or required to rasp wood, dress hemp, flax, and pick oakum. The women, were required knit stockings and weave linsey...8 KB (1,282 words) - 19:46, 9 October 2024
- fertilizer, or picking oakum using a large metal nail known as a spike. Although conditions in the workhouse were intended to be harsh to act as a deterrent...15 KB (1,841 words) - 18:50, 5 November 2024
usable product − such as the treadmill − but not such activities as picking oakum or stone-breaking). Even so, the centrally-sanctioned rations were strictly...32 KB (4,376 words) - 02:41, 8 February 2024
- pick oakum (third-person singular simple present picks oakum, present participle picking oakum, simple past and past participle picked oakum) To make oakum
- planking of iron and steel ships. Oakum is made by preference from old tarry ropes and cordage of vessels, and its picking and preparation has been a common
- take the glowing char cloth and set it against your tinder. Raw cotton and oakum work especially well as tinder. Blow on it gently until you get a flame