English Explanatory Dictionary

coak

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A wooden dowel.
  2. The brass bearing in the sheave of a block.
verb
  1. To unite (timbers etc.) by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or face.
noun
  1. Obsolete spelling of coke (“coal fuel”).

Pronunciation

/ˈkəʊk/ /ˈkoʊk/

Word forms

coak coaks coaking coaked

Etymology

Uncertain. The 1933 Oxford English Dictionary suggests a possible relation to an Old French cognate of Italian cocca (“notch”), to English cock or to coak, caulk ("drive oakum between planks"), "all referring to the fitting of a projection into a notch, indentation, or hollow".

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