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noun

Chock 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.

(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 n. An encounter. (Obs.)

verb

Chock v. t. (past & past part. chocked; pres. part. chocking) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

Chock v. t. To encounter. (Obs.)

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

adverb

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

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Etymology of 'Chock'

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"Chock" Quotes from Famous Books

... he would," said Harry, turning and slowly walking up toward the house; "but father told me not to borrow a gun from Truly Matthews. It's a shame, though, to stay here when the fields are just chock full of partridges. I never knew them so plenty in all my life. It's just the ...

— What Might Have Been Expected • Frank R. Stockton

... "Manuao, manuao!" Together, without exchanging a single word, they flew headlong to the beach, never stopping until they took shelter beneath the eaves of their own house. Yes, there was the man-of-war, a Britisher with yellow funnels, well outside the reef, towing behind her a flotilla of boats chock-a-block with natives. The red head-dresses of their crews showed them to be the followers of Tanumafili, and a couple of unmistakable pith helmets in the stern of the biggest betrayed the presence of directing white men. At the tail of the boats ...

— Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas • Lloyd Osbourne

... about ten o'clock on that morning when I reached the village of Latisana, where was the southernmost bridge across the Tagliamento. The streets of the little town were simply chock-a-block with troops which were pouring into it from converging roads. Two or three Italian officers, splashed to the eyes with mud and hoarse with shouting, had organized some control at this point, or otherwise nothing would have moved at all. Pushing soldiers ...

— World's War Events, Volume III • Various

... had caught the scent of the honey and was following it through his drift and upraise. Dad crawled out through the bee hole, slid down the tree and lit out for home. When he came back with his boys and neighbors he found the trap chock full of dead bears and lions. He cut down the bee tree, killed the bear that was inside and got half a ton of fine honey. That's the way Dad ...

— Bears I Have Met--and Others • Allen Kelly

... managed the business, and I gave word to the police, but they never could make anything of it. You know what a coal torpedo is, don't you? Well, you see, a cove insures his ship for more than its value, and then off he goes and makes a box like a bit o'coal, and fills it chock full with dynamite, or some other cowardly stuff of the sort. He drops this box among the other coals on the quay when the vessel is filling her bunkers, and then in course of time box is shoveled on to the furnaces, ...

— The Cabman's Story - The Mysteries of a London 'Growler' • Arthur Conan Doyle

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