coak

Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊk/

The English word “coak” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

A wooden dowel.
The brass bearing in the sheave of a block.

verb

To unite (timbers etc.) by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or face.

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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