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Definition of Chock |
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Chock
To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask. To fill up, as a cavity. 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. 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. Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft. To encounter. An encounter. Related Definitions: Aft, An, Any, Arms, Around, As, Beneath, Between, Block, Body, By, Cask, Casting, Cavity, Chock, Curving, Desired, Encounter, Entirely, Fasten, Fill, Fit, Fitting, Fixed, For, From, Gunwale, Heavy, Home, Has, In, Into, Inward, Is, It, Made, May, Metal, Mooring, Moving, Near, Of, Or, Other, Pass, Prevent, Quite, Scotch, Short, Something, Space, Steady, Stop, The, To, Towing, Two, Up, Wedge, Wheel, Which, With |
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Chock Translations
chock in German is festkeilen chock in Spanish is calzo, chaveta chock in Swedish is kil, kloss |
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