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chockstones

chockstones is the plural of chockstone.

Meaning of chockstone

Noun

chockstone (plural chockstones)

  1. A stone, ranging in size from a boulder to a pebble, which has become wedged in a vertical fissure or cleft.
    • In these coldest hours before dawn, from three until six, I take up my knife again and hack at the chockstone. I continue to make minimal but visible progress in the divot.2004, Aron Ralston, 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Simon and Schuster, published 2011, page 68
  2. A metal wedge or nut, threaded on a wire, used in rock climbing for protection by wedging it into a crack in the rock.

Questions about chockstones

What is chockstones the plural of?
Chockstones is the plural of chockstone.

Words near chockstones in the dictionary

  1. chocko
  2. chockos
  3. chocks
  4. chocks away
  5. chockstone
  6. chockstones
  7. chocky
  8. Choclo virus
  9. Choclo viruses
  10. chocnut
  11. choco

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