chock house

Noun

chock-house (plural chock-houses)

1. A juke joint that sold chock, a highly potent homemade beer known commonly sold in logging and turpentine camps.
   • In the 'chock-houses' where a crude form of alcohol cost a matter of cents, pianists hit the keys in a rough-and-ready combination of ragtime and blues: barrelhouse, as it was called, after the rudest of joints where barrels supported a plank for the bar.2008, Jeff Place, Classic Piano Blues, page 4