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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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"Chock" Quotes from Famous Books

... The City of Cawnpore's to wing-hawser was now stretched between the two vessels, one end being made fast to the barque's mizenmast, while the other end led in over the City of Cawnpore's bows, through a warping chock, and was secured somewhere inboard, probably to the windlass bitts—it would have been much more convenient had the hawser been made fast to the foremast, about fifteen or twenty feet from the deck; but a very heavy intermittent ...

— The Castaways • Harry Collingwood

... had to be observed, because Mrs Pettigrew hates tramps. Most people do who keep fowls. Albert's uncle was in London till the next evening, so we could not consult him, but we know he is always chock full of intelligent sympathy ...

— The Wouldbegoods • E. Nesbit

... really stupid? Was she really innocent? Was she not, rather, clever, chock-full of the secret wisdom and the ...

— The Tree of Heaven • May Sinclair

... age; so that what ought to be questions of strict calculation are subjected to the guessings of a mere common sense, far from adequate, in many cases, to their proper resolution. "I once raised a vessel," said Mr. Bremner,—"a large collier, chock-full of coal,—which an English projector had actually engaged to raise with huge bags of India rubber, inflated with air. But the bags, of course taxed far beyond their strength, collapsed or burst; and so, when I succeeded in bringing the vessel up, through ...

— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller

... judge, "supposing we take the latter clause as our working hypothesis. We're both Trents and chock-full of old Adam. I've never had any use for girls, and you have no use for old clams of uncles who keep their heads in their shells when they ought to be coming up to the scratch; but, after all, what's the good ...

— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham

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