meaning of chock
1. To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
2. To fill up, as a cavity.
3. 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. 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. Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.
6. To encounter.
7. An encounter.
8. a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
Related Words
chock | chock up | chock-a-block | chock-full | chockablock | chocked | chockful | chocking |
