Pronunciations (2)
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/tʃɒk/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/t͡ʃɑk/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Noun
Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
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On April 28, 1927, on Dutch Flats, below San Diego, Charles Lindbergh signaled chocks-away to those on the ground below him. A young mechanic named Douglas Corrigan nipped under the wing and pulled them away. Lindbergh gunned the plane and rolled it over the baked clay surface of the field, then gave it full throttle.
Artificial anchor points are those constructed from equipment carried by the team. These are usually the chocks or pitons placed in cracks or bolts drilled in the rock.
Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
Verb
To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
Usage- Transitive
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Gondolas with drop or hopper doors not boarded over should have lading cleated and chocked so as to prevent shifting over doors.
Alejandro jumped out and set the emergency brake (chocking the left rear wheel with a wood block he kept behind the cabina).
To fill up, as a cavity.
Usage- Intransitive
- Obsolete
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When the bells ring, the wood-work thereof shaketh and grapeth (no defect, but perfect of structure), and exactly chocketh into the joynts again; so that it may pass for the lively embleme of the sincere Christian, who, though he hath motum trepidationis, of fear and trembling, stands firmly fixt on the basis of a true faith.
To insert a line in a chock.
Adverb
Entirely; quite.
Usage- not-comparable
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Tom Hickey, our good-humored, blundering cabin-boy, decorated since poor Schubert's death with the dignities of cook, is in that little dirty cot on the starboard side; the rest are bedded in rows, Mr. Brooks and myself chock aft.
Merchant vessels usually hoist a little on the halyards, so as to clear the sail from the top, then belay them and get the lee sheet chock home; then haul home the weather sheet, shivering the sail by the braces to help it home, and hoist on the halyards until the leaches are well taut, taking a turn with the braces, if the wind is fresh, and slacking them as the yard goes up.
Noun
An encounter.
Usage- Obsolete
Verb
To encounter.
Usage- Obsolete
Interjection
Representing a dull sound.
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This chair, which had been purchased by a certain man as a birthday present for his wife, developed an annoying “chock, chock” noise after it had been used a few days.
With his eyes closed, Al could hear her drop the pinecone rhythmically on the tile, chock chock chock chock, the bass, her little toenails clicking a tune around it. Didn’t he deserve a really big horse?
The light is still that bright-green shining through new leaves, and from afar we hear pheasants calling: a smart chock, chock call not quite sufficiently suggestive of their epic dumbness.
Verb
To make a dull sound.
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After some delay an apparently new chair was returned to the purchaser, and the incident seemed closed. Within forty-eight hours, however, it began to “chock” like the first chair, which it really was. The dealer had merely glued it up again and returned it.
She saw him hurry to the door, heard the bolt chock. He tried the latch.
Noun
An illicit, fermented alcoholic beverage brewed on-site.
Usage- US usage
- Historical
- Uncountable
Noun
a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
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Adverb
as completely as possible
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it was chock-a-block full
Verb
secure with chocks
support on chocks
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chock the boat