chock

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A sort of wedge used to rest or confine any weighty body, and prevent it from fetching way when the ship is in motion. Also, pieces fitted to supply a deficiency or defect after the manner of filling.

Also, blocks of timber latterly substituted beneath the beams for knees, and wedged by iron keys. (See boat-chocks.)

♦ Chock of the bowsprit.

♦ See BEND.

♦ Chocks of the rudder, large accurately adapted pieces of timber kept in readiness to choak the rudder, by filling up the excavation on the side of the rudder hole, in case of any accident. It is also choaked or chocked, when a ship is likely to get strong stern-way, when tiller-ropes break, &c.

♦ To chock, is to put a wedge under anything to prevent its rolling. (See chuck.)

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← chlet × chock-a-block →

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