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Coke vs Chark - What's the difference?

coke | chark |

As nouns the difference between coke and chark

is that coke is solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel while chark is charcoal; coke.

As verbs the difference between coke and chark

is that coke is to produce coke from coal while chark is to reduce by strong heat, as to produce charcoal or coke; to calcine.

coke

English

Etymology 1

Perhaps from (etyl) colke .

Noun

(-)
  • (uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
  • * The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.
    • Derived terms
    *biocoke

    Verb

  • To produce coke from coal.
  • To turn into coke.

    • Etymology 2

    Originated circa 1908 in American English as a shortening of cocaine .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
    • See also
    * coca

    Etymology 3

    1909, from the name of the American company Coca-Cola'' and the beverage it produced; the drink was named for two of its original ingredients, ''coca'' leaves and ''cola nut.

    Noun

    (en noun)
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    • Synonyms

    * (soft drink) see the list at (m)

    References

    * http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=coke ----

    chark

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Charcoal; coke.
  • * 1719 , ,
    • ... so I contrived to burn some wood here, as I had seen done in England, under turf, till it became chark or dry coal ...
  • 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 ,
    • 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.
  • (US, Alaska) A wine glass.
  • * 2006 , Phyllis Downing Carlson and Laurel Downing Bill, Aunt Phil's Trunk: Early Alaska ,
    • 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 variety of hunting bird.
  • * 1856 , Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon , 2nd Edition,
    • 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)
  • 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,
    • 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.
  • * 1771 , John Whitaker, The History of Manchester , Volume 1,
    • The method which the Romans now taught them of charking the coal continues e??entially the ?ame until the pre?ent moment.
  • (Scotland) To make a grating sound.
  • * 1820 , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , Volume 7,
    • The hoarse charking conversation which they carried on was calculated to support the delusion.