Chock

[Chock]

A chock is a wedge of wood or metal that you place behind a wheel to keep a vehicle from rolling. Mechanics often use a chock as a safety measure while they're working on a car.

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To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

Noun
a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object

Verb
support on chocks; "chock the boat"

Verb
secure with chocks

Adverb
as completely as possible; "it was chock-a-block full"


v. t.
To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

v. i.
To fill up, as a cavity.

n.
A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.

n.
A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.

adv.
Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.

v. t.
To encounter.

n.
An encounter.


Chock

Chock , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chocked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Chocking.] To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

Chock

Chock, v. i. To fill up, as a cavity. "The woodwork . . . exactly chocketh into joints." Fuller.

Chock

Chock, n. 1. A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it. 2. (Naut.) A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.

Chock

Chock, adv. (Naut.) Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.

Chock

Chock, v. t. [F. choquer. Cf. Shock, v. t.] To encounter. [Obs.]

Chock

Chock, n. An encounter. [Obs.]

To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

To fill up, as a cavity.

A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.

Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.

To encounter.

An encounter.

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