Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
A wooden dowel. · The brass bearing in the sheave of a block.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo unite (timbers etc.) by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or face.
Uncertain. The 1933 Oxford English Dictionary suggests a possible relation to an Old French cognate of Italian cocca (“notch”), to English cock or to coak, caulk ("drive oakum between planks"), "all referring to the fitting of a projection into a notch, indentation, or hollow".
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- Cognate mentioncoccait
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