coke – English noun declension

English noun forms of coke

Noun: coke
Singularcoke
Pluralcokes

Sample Sentences

  • The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.
  • This Messrs. Greener and Straite allege they have effected by taking a quantity of lampblack or powdered charcoal, or of powdered coke, and which has been purified, by the action of electricity from sulphur and any other mixtures, and digesting the same in diluted nitro-muriatic acid. [1846, editorial staff, “CHEMISTRY”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 102:]
  • At Ho-pi (Hopi) in northern Honan two modern shafts were under construction in 1957-8; but the coal from Ho-pi is expected to be of rather poor quality and so will be mixed with rich coal from P'ing-ting-shan (Pingtingshan) in central Honan for coke making. [1963, “The Coal Industry in Mainland China Since 1949”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 129, number 3, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 333:]

Etymology

The origin is not certain. The OED says it is first attested in 1669. The MED has an earlier attestation in the related sense of "charcoal" in 1430: Middle English coke. This may be the same word as colk (“core”) (perhaps from the notion that coke is the core of the material left after it burning), from Old English *colc (“hole, well”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz (“a hollow, depression”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʷ)el- (“to swallow, devour; gullet”). If so, cognate with Saterland Frisian Kolk (“maelstrom, depression, whirlpool”), West Frisian kolk (“maelstrom, whirlpool”), Dutch kolk (“maelstrom, vortex, whirlpool”), German Kolk (“pothole”). See: Middle English Nouns 'coke', Old English Nouns '*colc', Dutch Nouns 'kolk', German Nouns 'Kolk'.

Verbs referencing "coke"

Dutch Nouns coke, French Nouns coke, Icelandic Nouns koks, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns koks, German Nouns Koks, Icelandic Nouns kók, Finnish Nouns koksi, Russian Nouns кокс, Greek Nouns κόκα.