chock

[chok]

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noun

a wedge or block of wood, metal, or the like, for filling in a space, holding an object steady, etc.

Nautical.

any of various heavy metal fittings on a deck or wharf that serve as fairleads for cables or chains.
a shaped support or cradle for a ship's boat, barrel, etc.
a small wooden piece or timber for filling a gap, reinforcing an angle, etc., in a wooden vessel.

Metalworking. a bearing supporting the end of a rolling mill.

Mining. a roof support made of cribbing filled with stones.Compare cog³(def 2).

verb (used with object)

to furnish with or secure by a chock or chocks.

Nautical. to place (a boat) upon chocks.

adverb

as close or tight as possible: chock against the edge.

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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Related Words for chocked

lade, stuff, pile, carry, cram, pack, stack, store, fill, load, throng, crowd, bind, squeeze, wedge, shove, ram, overcrowd, swamp, stream

Examples from the Web for chocked

Historical Examples of chocked

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.
The Story of the Foss River Ranch
Ridgwell Cullum
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

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

nautical

a fairlead consisting of a ringlike device with an opening at the top through which a rope is placed
a cradle-like support for a boat, barrel, etc

mountaineering See nut (def. 10)

verb (tr)

(usually foll by up) British to cram fullchocked up with newspapers

to fit with or secure by a chock

to support (a boat, barrel, etc) on chocks

adverb

as closely or tightly as possiblechock against the wall

Word Origin for chock

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

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."

chock

adv.

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