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Chock [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In marine language, a kind of wedge for confining a cask or other body, to prevent it from moving.

2. CHOCK s of the rudder, are pieces of timber kept in readiness to stop the motion of the rudder, in case of an accident, etc.

3. CHOCK , an encounter. [ See Shock .]

Chock [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.

Chock [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. An encounter.

Chock [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To fill up, as a cavity.

Chock [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

2. To encounter.

Chock-full [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Quite full; choke-full.

Chockablock [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.

Chocked [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Chock

Chocking [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Chock