coak

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkəʊk/    美 /ˈkoʊk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wooden dowel. countable,uncountable
  2. Obsolete spelling of coke (“coal fuel”). alt-of,countable,obsolete,uncountable
  3. The brass bearing in the sheave of a block. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To unite (timbers etc.) by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or face.
    — The orlop clamps and shelfpieces are then worked, and the beams and half beams placed thereon, these are coaked and bolted thereto[…]

词形变化

coaks plural coaks present,singular,third-person coaking participle,present coaked participle,past coaked past coaks plural

词源

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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