Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers.

Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.

Something worthless, or only worth its value as recyclable scrap.

Hard salted beef supplied to ships.

A large vessel, without keel or prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters.

any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails

a boat used in China

a Chinese sailling vessel, and if you visit the Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade at the right time you will see the boat sail across Victoria Harbour

lapidary material discovered to be less-than-desireable only after being sawed.

A material found below the spermaceti organ in a sperm whale's head.

The modified melon of sperm whales.