stoak
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]stoak (third-person singular simple present stoaks, present participle stoaking, simple past and past participle stoaked)
- (nautical, transitive) To stop; to choke.
- The pump is stoaked.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stoak”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)