CHOCK

v. n. adv.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

2.
v.

To fill up, as a cavity. "The woodwork . . . exactly chocketh into joints." Fuller.

3.
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.

4.
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.

5.
adv.

Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.

6.
v.

To encounter. [Obs.]

7.
n.

An encounter. [Obs.]

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