society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > join with coaks (2)
transitive. Shipbuilding. To join (timbers) together lengthways by means of coaks (coak, n. 2); = coak, v. 1. rare.
transitive. To join (timbers) together lengthways by means of coaks (coak, n. 2); to join (a piece of timber) to another in this way. Cf. table, v. 5.