cork¹ n also cark.
   1 Oakum used to fill the seams of a boat or other wooden structure to be made watertight.
   M 68-13 He would pitch the seams so that they wouldn't leak. He would put cark in the seams also. He would do the same job with the coffin as with a dory so that it wouldn't leak. 1987 DAWE [12] C is for cark/In the seams of a boat;/Some folks call it oakum,/And that's no misquote.
   2 Comb cark iron.
   T 166-65 I never seed a'r cark iron. And I went back up and I said, 'He isn't there.'

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