Associations to the word «Caking»

Wiktionary

CAKING, verb. Present participle of cake
CAKING COAL, noun. A bituminous coal which softens and becomes pasty or semiviscid when heated. On increasing the heat, the volatile products are driven off, and a coherent, grayish-black, cellular mass of coke is left.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats