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- verb Present participle of
chark .
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Examples
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Dudley's invention, it would seem probable, depended upon charking or coking the coal, in a manner analogous to the making of wood charcoal.
The Coal Question~ Of the Iron Trade William Stanley Jevons 1865
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Brockwere, or if at Wye's Green for 4s. ditto; fire-cole at 8s. a dozen bushels; smith's-cole, 6s., and charking at 8s., "without handing, thrusting, kicking, or knocking the same," under the usual penalty.
The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account 1846
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