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Chuck   /tʃək/   Listen
verb
Chuck  v. t.  To call, as a hen her chickens.


Chuck  v. t.  (past & past part. chucked; pres. part. chucking)  
1.
To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to. "Chucked the barmaid under the chin."
2.
To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch. (Colloq.) "Mahomet Ali will just be chucked into the Nile."
3.
(Mech.) To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.


Chuck  v. i.  (past & past part. chucked; pres. part. chucking)  
1.
To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.
2.
To chuckle; to laugh. (R.)


noun
Chuck  n.  
1.
The chuck or call of a hen.
2.
A sudden, small noise.
3.
A word of endearment; corrupted from chick. "Pray, chuck, come hither."


Chuck  n.  
1.
A slight blow or pat under the chin.
2.
A short throw; a toss.
3.
(Mach.) A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.
Chuck farthing, a play in which a farthing is pitched into a hole; pitch farthing.
Chuck hole, a deep hole in a wagon rut.
Elliptic chuck, a chuck having a slider and an eccentric circle, which, as the work turns round, give it a sliding motion across the center which generates an ellipse.


Chuck  n.  
1.
A small pebble; called also chuckstone and chuckiestone. (Scot.)
2.
pl. A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones. (Scot.)


Chuck  n.  A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast. (Colloq.)





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"Chuck" Quotes from Famous Books



... "my familiar risked his liberty to bring it, but he succeeded. Ha! ha! My precious Fancy, thou art the best of servants, and shalt have my best blood to reward thee to-morrow—thou shalt, my sweetheart, my chuck, my dandyprat. But hie thee back to Malkin Tower, and contrive that this lady may hear, as well as see, all ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... torrents tearing down the slopes of the occasional hills or mountains. These dried up river-beds furnished the only continuously hard surfaces we found on the Gobi; although even here we were sometimes brought up with a round turn in a chuck hole, with the ...
— Across Asia on a Bicycle • Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben
... get a wrinkle, kid," replied the youth, who had permission to apply any pet name he pleased. "The stuff's mine, all right. And now it's yours. Unless you think I sneaked it. Then you can chuck it ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson
... away," they all laughed, "and chuck them in her face! She has got you up in such a way as to make a regular old elf ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... unmusical voice but amid the sounds of hoofs and wheels, and the discords of the street? And the ordinary notes and calls of so many of the British birds, according to their biographers, are harsh and disagreeable; even the nightingale has an ugly, guttural "chuck." The missel-thrush has a harsh scream; the jay a note like "wrack," "wrack;" the fieldfare a rasping chatter; the blackbird, which is our robin cut in ebony, will sometimes crow like a cock and cackle like a hen; the ...
— Locusts and Wild Honey • John Burroughs


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