coke breeze
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.66 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "At some gasworks the coke-breeze is made into bricks to be used for generating steam or for heating the retort furnaces, but if the breeze is worth 6s. to 7s. per ton, and its conversion into "briquettes" costs about the same sum, coal at 15s. per ton would be preferable, as the manufacture of "briquettes" requires expensive machinery"
- "In addition, some solid, very hard and fine "coke breeze" is also formed."
- "The cook-house was like a cathedral's nave, aisles being divided off by the pipes of stoves. The floor was of coke-brise, shining under french polish and turpentine."
Usage
Inflected Forms
coke-brise (alternative)