meaning of chokes
1. A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth.
2. A sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that can not be answered.
3. To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
4. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
5. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc. ; to stifle.
6. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
7. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
8. To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.
9. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
10. A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
11. The tied end of a cartridge.
12. A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
13. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.
14. a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
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