Choak away, the churchyard's near; a jocular saying to a person taken with a violent fit of coughing, or who has swallowed any thing, as it is called the wrong way; Choak, chicken, more are hatching: a like consolation.
·vt & ·vi ·see <<Choke>>. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Figuratively, an unanswerable objection: also a machine formerly used in Holland by robbers; it was ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
He will have a hearty choak and caper sauce for breakfast; i.e. he will be hanged. ...