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coke

/kəʊk/

noun

Meaning

  • 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."

verb

Meaning

  • To produce coke from coal.

  • To turn into coke.

  • To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.