chocked

Verb (1)

chock (third-person singular simple present chocks, present participle chocking, simple past and past participle chocked)

1. (transitive) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
   • Gondolas with drop or hopper doors not boarded over should have lading cleated and chocked so as to prevent shifting over doors.1915, Railway Line Clearances and Car Dimensions Including Weight Limitations of Railroads in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Cuba
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To fill up, as a cavity.
   • 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...1662, Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England
3. To insert a line in a chock.

Verb (2)

chock (third-person singular simple present chocks, present participle chocking, simple past and past participle chocked)

1. (obsolete) To encounter.

Verb (3)

chock (third-person singular simple present chocks, present participle chocking, simple past and past participle chocked)

1. To make a dull sound.
   • After some delay an apparently new chair was returned to the purchaser, and the incident seemed closed. Within forty-eight hours, however, it began to “chock” like the first chair, which it really was. The dealer had merely glued it up again and returned it.1927 September 4, “Huckstering Not a Good Practice: In Neighborhood Stores It Is Calculated to Alienate Customers”, in The New York Times (section 2), volume LXXVI, number 25,425, New York, N.Y.: The...

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