Caulking
of a ship, driving a quantity of oakum into the seams of the planks in the ship's decks or sides in to prevent the entrance of water.
After the oakum is driven very hard into these seams it is covered with hot melted pitch to keep the water from rotting it.
CAURA (kō'ra), a river of Venezuela, over 400 miles long, rises among the sierras of the frontier, and flows N. N.
W. to the Orinoco.