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pick oakum

pick oakum verb: to make oakum by untwisting old ropes.

Verb

pick oakum (third-person singular simple present picks oakum, present participle picking oakum, simple past and past participle picked oakum)

  1. To make oakum by untwisting old ropes.

Forms of pick oakum

third-person singular presentpicks oakum
present participlepicking oakum
past participlepicked oakum
pastpicked oakum

Questions about pick oakum

What does pick oakum mean?
Pick oakum means to make oakum by untwisting old ropes.
What part of speech is pick oakum?
Pick oakum is a verb.
What is the past tense of pick oakum?
The past tense of pick oakum is picked oakum.

Words near pick oakum in the dictionary

  1. pick hammers
  2. pick holes
  3. pick it up
  4. pick me
  5. pick mes
  6. pick oakum
  7. pick of the crop
  8. pick of the litter
  9. pick off
  10. pick offs
  11. pick on

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