coaker n Attrib coaker engine, coaker: gasoline-fuelled engine used in fishing boats c1920, and named for Sir William Coaker, president of the Fishermen's Protective Union.
   1940 SCAMMELL 6 "The Six Horse-Power Coaker": Now they cost quite a lot, so when she got hot, / We cooled off that Coaker by hand. C 69-2 Before the coaker engine was used in motor boats, the engines which were used were quite noisy and one could hear it for miles. With the introduction of the coaker engine the engine was a quiet 'chuck, chuck, chuck.' 1978 Evening Telegram 6 May, p. 6 I heard the doctor's boat leave the harbour. We kids knew the sound of all the engines in the place, especially the old 'Coaker.'

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