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Coak vs Cloak - What's the difference?

coak | cloak |

As nouns the difference between coak and cloak

is that coak is a wooden dowel while cloak is a long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.

As verbs the difference between coak and cloak

is that coak is to unite (timbers etc) by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or face while cloak is to cover as with a cloak.

coak

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a wooden dowel
  • (nautical) the brass bearing in the sheave of a block

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To unite (timbers etc.) by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or face.
    • (Totten)

    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