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chock

[chok]
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noun
  1. a wedge or block of wood, metal, or the like, for filling in a space, holding an object steady, etc.
  2. Nautical.
    1. any of various heavy metal fittings on a deck or wharf that serve as fairleads for cables or chains.
    2. a shaped support or cradle for a ship's boat, barrel, etc.
    3. a small wooden piece or timber for filling a gap, reinforcing an angle, etc., in a wooden vessel.
  3. Metalworking. a bearing supporting the end of a rolling mill.
  4. Mining. a roof support made of cribbing filled with stones.Compare cog3(def 2).
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verb (used with object)
  1. to furnish with or secure by a chock or chocks.
  2. Nautical. to place (a boat) upon chocks.
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adverb
  1. as close or tight as possible: chock against the edge.
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Origin of chock

Middle English < Anglo-French choque (compare modern Picard choke big log, Normandy dial. chouque), Old French çoche (French soche); of uncertain origin
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Examples from the Web for chocked

Historical Examples

  • Besides, I should be delighted to have him chocked into the tronk for ‘gun-running.’

    A Veldt Official

    Bertram Mitford

  • The idea of insinuating that you had stepped in fraudulently, and been the parasite which chocked her!

    Faithful Margaret

    Annie Ashmore

  • And, I guess, yer barns are chocked full of yer wheel gearing and implements.

  • And with this dire remark he grabbed at a sliding pot and chocked it off on top of the stove with a rolling rod.

    The Viking Blood

    Frederick William Wallace

  • Colville approached him and they stood side by side until "The Last Hope" was safely moored and chocked.

    The Last Hope

    Henry Seton Merriman

British Dictionary definitions for chocked

chock

noun
  1. a block or wedge of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
  2. nautical
    1. a fairlead consisting of a ringlike device with an opening at the top through which a rope is placed
    2. a cradle-like support for a boat, barrel, etc
  3. mountaineering See nut (def. 10)
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verb (tr)
  1. (usually foll by up) British to cram fullchocked up with newspapers
  2. to fit with or secure by a chock
  3. to support (a boat, barrel, etc) on chocks
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adverb
  1. as closely or tightly as possiblechock against the wall
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Word Origin

C17: of uncertain origin; perhaps related to Old French çoche log; compare Provençal soca tree stump
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Word Origin and History for chocked

chock

n.

1670s, "lumpy piece of wood," possibly from Old North French choque "a block" (Old French çoche "log," 12c.; Modern French souche "stump, stock, block"), from Gaulish *tsukka "a tree trunk, stump."

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chock

adv.

"tightly, close up against," 1799, back formation from chock-full.

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