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Choak vs Cloak - What's the difference?

choak | cloak |

As verbs the difference between choak and cloak

is that choak is while cloak is to cover as with a cloak.

As a noun cloak is

a long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.

choak

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • * 1806 , Charles Heath, Monmouthshire
  • At that time, the interior was choaked up with rubbish, several feet above the present surface, and overspread with ashlings, alders, and trees, the growth of such situations, to a very considerable height.

    cloak

    English

    (wikipedia cloak)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=5 citation , passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
  • A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
  • (figurative)  That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
  • * South
  • No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak .
  • (Internet)  A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
  • Derived terms

    * cloak and dagger

    See also

    * burnoose, burnous, burnouse * domino costume

    Verb

  • To cover as with a cloak.
  • (science fiction, ambitransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
  • The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.

    Derived terms

    * cloaking device