Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A thick mass or piece.
  • noun Informal A substantial amount.
  • noun A strong stocky horse.
  • intransitive verb To form into chunks.
  • intransitive verb To make a dull clacking sound.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A short thick piece, as of wood.
  • noun A person or a beast that is small, but thick-set and strong: as, a chunk of a boy; a chunk of a horse.
  • noun 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.
  • In lumbering, to clear (ground) with an engine or horses of obstructions which cannot be removed by hand.
  • noun 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Colloq. U. S. & Prov. Eng. A short, thick piece of anything.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb put together indiscriminately
  • noun a substantial amount
  • noun a compact mass
  • verb group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Perhaps variant of chuck.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Variant of chuck.

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