chock-home

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• Chock

  ·vi To fill up, as a cavity. II. Chock ·noun An <<Encounter>>. III. Chock ·vt To <<Encounter>>. I...

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• to chock

  To put a wedge under a thing to prevent its moving; as, to 'chock a barrel,' i. e. to put a piece of...

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• chock

  to choak. Suss. ...

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• chock

  A sort of wedge used to rest or confine any weighty body, and prevent it from fetching way when the ...

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• Home

  ·adv Close; closely. II. Home ·noun ·see <<Homelyn>>. III. Home ·noun The home base; he started fo...

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• home

  The proper situation of any object, when it retains its full force of action, or when it is properly...

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• Chock-full

  ·adj Quite full; choke-full. ...

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• Dousing-chock

  ·noun One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking...

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• chock-full

  Entirely full; see also Chuck-full. I'm chock-full of genius and running over, said Pigwiggin. Neal...

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• chock up

  Close, tight; said of a thing which fits closely to another. When the bells ring, the wood-work the...

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• chock-full

  , chock-full, chock-home, chock-up, &c. Denote as far aft, full, home, up, &c., as possible, or th...

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• chock-up

  , chock-full, chock-home, chock-up, &c. Denote as far aft, full, home, up, &c., as possible, or th...

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• chock-aft

  , chock-full, chock-home, chock-up, &c. Denote as far aft, full, home, up, &c., as possible, or th...

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• chock-channels

  Those filled in with wood between the chain-plates, according to a plan introduced by Captain Couch,...

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• dowsing chock

  A breast-hook or piece fayed athwart the apron and lapped on the knight-heads, or inside stuff, abov...

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• rolling-chock

  , or jaw-piece. Similar to that of a gaff, fastened to the middle of an upper yard, to steady it. ...

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• Harvest-home

  ·noun The opportunity of gathering treasure. II. Harvest-home ·noun The gathering and bringing home...

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• Home-bound

  ·adj Kept at home. ...

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• Home-bred

  ·adj Not polished; rude; uncultivated. II. Home-bred ·adj Bred at home; domestic; not foreign. ...

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• Home-coming

  ·noun Return home. ...

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• Home-driven

  ·adj Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close. ...

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• Home-dwelling

  ·adj Keeping at home. ...

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• Home-felt

  ·adj Felt in one's own breast; inward; private. ...

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• Home-keeping

  ·noun A staying at home. II. Home-keeping ·adj Staying at home; not gadding. ...

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• Home-speaking

  ·noun Direct, forcible, and effective speaking. ...

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• Home, John

  (1722-1808) Dramatist, s. of the Town-Clerk of Leith, where he was b., ed. there and at Edin., and ...

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• to see home

  'To see a lady home,' is to wait upon or attend her home from a party or elsewhere. The eventful da...

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• called home

  asked in the church. Sedgemoor. ...

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• blow home

  The wind does not cease or moderate till it comes past that place, blowing continuously over the lan...

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• coming-home

  Said of the anchor when it has been dropped on bad holding ground, or is dislodged from its bed by t...

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• falling home

  When the top-sides are inclined within the perpendicular; opposite of wall-sided. (See tumbling home...

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• home-service

  The Channel service; any force, either naval or military, stationed in and about the United Kingdom....

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• home-traders

  The contradistinction of foreign-going ships. ...

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• sailors' home

  A house built by subscription, for the accommodation of seamen on moderate terms, and to rescue them...

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• sheet home!

  The order, after the sails are loosed, to extend the sheets to the outer extremities of the yards, t...

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• tumbling home

  The opposite of wall-sided, or flaring out. That part of a ship's side which curves inwardly above t...

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• chock-and-log

  n. and adj. a particularkind of fence much used on Australian stations. The Chock is a thick short ...

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• chock-a-block

  , or chock and block Is the same with block-a-block and two-blocks (which see). When the lower blo...

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• Kames, Henry Home, Lord

  (1696-1782) Miscellaneous writer, s. of Geo. H., of Kames, Berwickshire, was admitted an advocate i...

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• ram home, to

  To drive home the ammunition in a gun. ...

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• bring home the anchor, to

  is to weigh it. It applies also when the flukes slip or will not hold; a ship then brings home her a...

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