Chark vs Chank - What's the difference?
chark | chank |
Charcoal; coke.
* 1719 , ,
A pointed stick, which when placed with the point against another piece of wood, and spun rapidly in alternate directions with the aid of attached cords, produces enough heat by friction to create a fire; a fire-drill.
* 1872 , Charles Hardwick, Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-lore ,
(US, Alaska) A wine glass.
* 2006 , Phyllis Downing Carlson and Laurel Downing Bill, Aunt Phil's Trunk: Early Alaska ,
A variety of hunting bird.
* 1856 , Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon , 2nd Edition,
To reduce by strong heat, as to produce charcoal or coke; to calcine.
* 1749 , John Lowthorp, Royal Society of Great Britain, The Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the end of the year MDCC , 5th Edition,
* 1771 , John Whitaker, The History of Manchester , Volume 1,
(Scotland) To make a grating sound.
* 1820 , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , Volume 7,
As nouns the difference between chark and chank
is that chark is charcoal; coke while chank is (east india) the large spiral shell of several species of sea conch, much used in making bangles, especially.As verbs the difference between chark and chank
is that chark is to reduce by strong heat, as to produce charcoal or coke; to calcine while chank is (us) to eat noisily; to champ or chomp.chark
English
Noun
(en noun)- ... so I contrived to burn some wood here, as I had seen done in England, under turf, till it became chark or dry coal ...
- The discoverer of the chark , or " fire-drill," an instrument for obtaining fire by artificial means, would be so great a benefactor to a people that had to suffer all the inconveniences resulting from occasional fireless hearths, that we may well understand why he may be invested by his astonished and delighted fellow-savages with miraculous or supernatural powers.
- At noon, each man got his half-chark (a wine glass) full of rum and a four-quart iron pot of fish soup made from salt salmon, potatoes and graham flour ... in the evening another half chark of rum and 20 cents as pay for the day's work.
- A good chark will sometimes take as many as eight or ten bustards or five or six gazelles in the course of a morning.
Verb
(en verb)- I have ?een Turf chark''d, and then it ?erves to work Iron, and, as I have been inform'd will ?erve to make it in a Bloomery or Iron-work. Turf ' chark' d I reckon the ?weete?t and whole?ome?t Fire that can be, fitter for a Chamber and con?umptive People, than either Wood, Stone-Coal or Charcoal.
- The method which the Romans now taught them of charking the coal continues e??entially the ?ame until the pre?ent moment.
- The hoarse charking conversation which they carried on was calculated to support the delusion.
