chunk

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A thick mass or piece: a chunk of ice.
2. n. Informal A substantial amount: won quite a chunk of money.
3. n. A strong stocky horse.
4. v. To form into chunks.
5. v. To make a dull clacking sound: listened to the rundown copier chunk along.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A short thick piece, as of wood.
2. n. A person or a beast that is small, but thick-set and strong: as, a chunk of a boy; a chunk of a horse.
3. n. A game formerly much played by certain tribes of North American Indians, consisting in rolling a disk of stone along a prepared course, and immediately afterward throwing a stick so as to make it lie as near the stone as possible when the two come to rest. The grounds used for this amusement are known as chunk-yards.
4. n. Specifically, a range-bred horse of the western United States, suitable for draft purposes, standing 15 hands or over, and weighing from 1,100 to 1,400 pounds.
5. In lumbering, to clear (ground) with an engine or horses of obstructions which cannot be removed by hand.

Wiktionary

1. n. A part of something that has been separated.
2. n. A representative of a substance at large, often large and irregular.
3. n. computing A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
4. v. To break into large pieces or chunks.
5. v. slang To throw.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Colloq. U. S. & Prov. Eng. A short, thick piece of anything.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. put together indiscriminately
2. n. a substantial amount
3. n. a compact mass
4. v. group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side