[cf. prec., and COCK v.]
1. trans. To join by the aid of coaks.
1794. Rigging & Seamanship, I. 4. Coaking is uniting two or more pieces together, in the middle, by small tabular pieces, formed from the solid of one piece and sunk exactly the same in the other.
1869. Sir E. J. Reed, Shipbuild., xiv. 259. To make it [lower mast] up of several pieces, which are coaked and bolted to each other, and bound together by numerous iron hoops.
b. intr. for refl.
1794. Rigging & Seamanship, I. 5. The pieces coak or table together.
