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- Chock - v. t. - To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
- Chock - v. i. - To fill up, as a cavity.
- Chock - n. - 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.
- Chock - n. - 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.
- Chock - adv. - Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.
- Chock - v. t. - To encounter.
- Chock - n. - An encounter.
- Chock-full - a. - Quite full; choke-full.
- Chockablock - a. - Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.
- Chocked - imp. & p. p. - of Chock
- Chocking - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Chock
- Chock - v. t. - To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
- Chock - adv. - Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.