chocks

Noun (1)

chock (plural chocks)

1. Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
   • On April 28, 1927, on Dutch Flats, below San Diego, Charles Lindbergh signaled chocks-away to those on the ground below him. A young mechanic named Douglas Corrigan nipped under the wing and pulled them away. Lindbergh gunned the plane and rolled it over the baked clay surface of the field, then...2000, Leonard Mosley, Lindbergh: A Biography, page 82
2. Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.

Noun (2)

chock (plural chocks)

1. (obsolete) An encounter.

Noun (3)

chock (uncountable)

1. (US, historical) An illicit, fermented alcoholic beverage brewed on-site.

See all 12 meanings of chock