roke

[ rohk ]

nounMetallurgy.
  1. a seam or scratch filled with scale or slag on the surface of an ingot or bar.

Origin of roke

1
First recorded in 1885–90; origin uncertain; perhaps originally dialect (N England) roke, rawk “to scratch, flaw”

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