chock

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  1. noun A block or wedge placed under something else, such as a wheel, to keep it from moving.
  2. noun Nautical A heavy fitting of metal or wood with two jaws curving inward, through which a rope or cable may be run.
  3. transitive verb To fit with or secure by a chock: The plane's wheels were chocked and chained down.

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  • And I have twice known bulls to come to the chuck of an ax on a block; which sound, at a distance, has some resemblance to the peculiar chock-chocking that the bulls use to call their mates from a distance From any point of view the thing has contradictions enough to make one wary of a too positive opinion. —  Wood Folk at School
  • The place was chock-a-block with rough-looking men, either looking on or playing the games. —  The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
  • I have opened the hatches, and she is chock-full of hides; but what there is, underneath, I don't know Come along, Bob, we will overhaul the papers," the captain said and, going to the cabin, they examined the bill of lading Here it is, sir," Bob said, triumphantly. —  Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)
  • They make up about two hundred an' twenty beds in it altogether, an' these are chock-full a'most every night. —  Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan
  • I feels chock-full already, an' it might be dangerous. —  The Young Trawler
 

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  1. Possibly from Old North French choque, log, from Gaulish *tsukka, stump, of Germanic origin.

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  1. Due to chock in chock-full = choke-full, q. v.
  2. With variant chuck, q. v.; orig. a variant of shock, apparently associated also with chock = choke. Cf. choke, v., and chock, v.
  3. With variant chuck, in partly different senses; apparently from chock, variant of choke; cf. choke, v., block, obstruct, with which chock, v., in part from this noun, nearly agrees. Perhaps also associated with chock, v., throw (thrust in).
  4. from chock, n. See chock, n., and cf. chock.
 

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