chucking

Verb (1)

chuck (third-person singular simple present chucks, present participle chucking, simple past and past participle chucked)

1. To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.
2. To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.

Verb (2)

chuck (third-person singular simple present chucks, present participle chucking, simple past and past participle chucked)

1. To make a clucking sound.
2. To call, as a hen her chickens.
   • Then crowing clapped his wing, th'appointed call
     To chuck his wives together in the hall.1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
3. (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
   • Who would not chuck to see such pleasing sport.
     To see such troupes of gallants still resort
     unto Cornutos shop.1598, John Marston, “Satyre IV”, in The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image, and Certaine Satyres (poem)

Verb (3)

chuck (third-person singular simple present chucks, present participle chucking, simple past and past participle chucked)

1. To playfully give a light touch, stroke, tap, etc., to someone, especially under the chin.
   • [Y]ou look now as you did before we were married—when you used to walk with me under the Elms, and tell me stories of what a Gallant you were in your youth—and chuck me under the chin you would—and ask me if I thought I could love an old Fellow who would deny me nothing—didn't you?1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, III.ii

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