Phil in SF quoted Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb (The Farseer Trilogy, #1)
Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow …
If I close my eyes, I can smell those glorious days. Oakum and tar and fresh wood shavings from the dry docks where the shipwrights wielded their drawknives and mallets.
— Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb (The Farseer Trilogy, #1) (7%)
new vocabulary: oakum
loose fiber obtained by untwisting old rope, used especially in caulking wooden ships