[f. COKE sb.]

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  1.  trans. To convert (coal) into coke.

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1804.  Phil. Trans., XCIV. 304. The heat … appears to have … coaked beds of coal.

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a. 1845.  Hood, Ode to R. Wilson. Poor Nature … is stoked, coked, smoked, and almost choked.

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1884.  Cassell’s Fam. Mag., March, 203/1. Two days are sufficient to ‘coke’ the coal.

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  b.  Erroneously said of wood.

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1816.  Scott, Antiq., xviii. The furnace in which the wood was deposited in order to its being coked or charred.

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  2.  intr. (for refl.) Of coal: To turn into coke.

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1884.  E. Ingersoll, in Harper’s Mag., May, 876/1. It will not coke.

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  Coke, obs. form of COCK, COLK, COOK.

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  Coke, Colker, dial. f. CALK, CALKER.

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