roke

American  

[rohk] / roʊk /

noun

Metallurgy.

1. a seam or scratch filled with scale or slag on the surface of an ingot or bar.

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Etymology

Origin of roke

First recorded in 1885–90; origin uncertain; perhaps originally dialect (N England) roke, rawk “to scratch, flaw”

Example Sentences

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roke

"B roke it in nine places," Eugene Roach was saying.

From Time Magazine Archive

This simple instrument is a very portable one; and well fitted to the social inclination of meeting in a neighbour’s house; hence the phrase of going a rocking, or with the roke.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

It will blow from the land directly, and then the roke will go.

From Notwithstanding by Mary Cholmondeley

Then aunt, wha spun, laid down her roke, An' thus repliet to Mary: Unequal matches in a yoke Draw thrawart and camstrarie.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers

It was very dark and a fine rain fell, so that a man could see no further before his eyes than he can at evening through a Norfolk roke in autumn.

From Montezuma's Daughter by Henry Rider Haggard