oakum

n.

麻絮，填絮（用于填塞船缝）；油麻丝；

1. He smelled the tar and oakum of the deck as he slept and he smelled the smell of Africa that the land breeze brought at morning.
   睡着的时候，他闻到甲板上柏油和填絮的味道，还闻到早晨陆地上风送来的非洲气息。

Oakum
Oakum packing
Oakum wrapping machine
AN OAKUM RESPIRATOR
Picking Oakum (poem)
Oakum as a Surgical Dressing.
Oakum picking in the twenty-first century
Oakum for caulking boats, close-up view: Melvin Combden, Seldom-Come-By
Ashes and Sparks: Mice peeping out of oakum
1442 A study on the application using oakum and urethane as a repair for water-leakage in expansion joint and cracks