CHUCK

To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.

To chuckle; to laugh. [R.] Marston.

To call, as a hen her chickens. Dryden.

The chuck or call of a hen.

A sudden, small noise.

A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick. "Pray, chuck, come hither." Shak.

To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to. Chucked the barmaid under the chin. W. Irving.

To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch. [Colloq.] "Mahomet Ali will just be chucked into the Nile." Lord Palmerson.

To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.

A slight blow or pat under the chin.

A short throw; a toss.

A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.

A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone. [Scot.]

A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones. [Scot.]

A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast. [Colloq.]