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CIDE DICTIONARY

meaking

CIDE DICTIONARY

meakingn. [See Meak.].
     The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.  [1913 Webster]
Meaking iron (Naut.), the tool with which old oakum is picked out of a vessel's seams.

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