Chock

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To fill up, as a cavity.

II. Chock ·noun An Encounter.

III. Chock ·vt To Encounter.

IV. Chock ·adv Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.

V. Chock ·vt To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to Scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

VI. Chock ·noun 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.

VII. Chock ·noun 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.

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