chock
Part of speech: noun
verb
adv
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English *chokke (possibly attested in Middle English chokkefull), from Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from an Old Northern French variant of Old French çouche, çouche (“block, log”), of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *tsukka (compare Breton soc’h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”), itself borrowed from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz. Doublet of stock.
Inflected forms:
form: chocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
pos: noun
examples: On April 28, 1927, on Dutch Flats, below San Diego, Charles Lindbergh signaled chocks-away to those on the ground below him. A young mechanic named Douglas Corrigan nipped under the wing and pulled them away. Lindbergh gunned the plane and rolled it over the baked clay surface of the field, then gave it full throttle.
Artificial anchor points are those constructed from equipment carried by the team. These are usually the chocks or pitons placed in cracks or bolts drilled in the rock.
gloss: Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
pos: noun
gloss: To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Gondolas with drop or hopper doors not boarded over should have lading cleated and chocked so as to prevent shifting over doors.
Alejandro jumped out and set the emergency brake (chocking the left rear wheel with a wood block he kept behind the cabina).
gloss: To fill up, as a cavity.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: When the bells ring, the wood-work thereof shaketh and grapeth (no defect, but perfect of structure), and exactly chocketh into the joynts again; so that it may pass for the lively embleme of the sincere Christian, who, though he hath motum trepidationis, of fear and trembling, stands firmly fixt on the basis of a true faith.
gloss: To insert a line in a chock.
pos: verb
gloss: Entirely; quite.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Tom Hickey, our good-humored, blundering cabin-boy, decorated since poor Schubert's death with the dignities of cook, is in that little dirty cot on the starboard side; the rest are bedded in rows, Mr. Brooks and myself chock aft.
Merchant vessels usually hoist a little on the halyards, so as to clear the sail from the top, then belay them and get the lee sheet chock home; then haul home the weather sheet, shivering the sail by the braces to help it home, and hoist on the halyards until the leaches are well taut, taking a turn with the braces, if the wind is fresh, and slacking them as the yard goes up.
gloss: Representing a dull sound.
pos: intj
examples: This chair, which had been purchased by a certain man as a birthday present for his wife, developed an annoying “chock, chock” noise after it had been used a few days.
With his eyes closed, Al could hear her drop the pinecone rhythmically on the tile, chock chock chock chock, the bass, her little toenails clicking a tune around it. Didn’t he deserve a really big horse?
The light is still that bright-green shining through new leaves, and from afar we hear pheasants calling: a smart chock, chock call not quite sufficiently suggestive of their epic dumbness.
Derived words: chockablock
chockless
chockstone
dousing-chock
chocks away
unchock
chock-a-block
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