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roke
[ rohk ]
noun
, Metallurgy.
- a seam or scratch filled with scale or slag on the surface of an ingot or bar.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of roke1
First recorded in 1885–90; origin uncertain; perhaps originally dialect (N England) roke, rawk “to scratch, flaw”
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Example Sentences
She was as lean as a man at the hips, and finned away like a mermaid, as became a daughter of the Old Roke.
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He looked at her as if the Old Roke himself had clambered into the boat, with his spell of doom.
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Thus "sheaf" and "reek" are in Norfolk "shoaf" and "roke;" and "smeath," a table land, is evidently from "smooth."
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Later, when the Roke—by Velasquez was being talked of, I went with him to see the picture.
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