chock

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tʃɒk/
• Rhymes: -ɒk

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from Gaulish *śokka (compare Breton soc’h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”)).

Noun

chock (plural chocks)

1. Any wooden block used as a wedge or filler
2. (nautical) 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.
3. Blocks made of either wood, plastic or metal, used to keep a parked aircraft in position.
   • 2000, Lindbergh: A Biography, by Leonard Mosley, page 82

     On April 28, 1927, on Dutch Flats, below San Diego, Charles Lindbergh signaled chocks-away to those on the ground below him.

Translations

wooden block used as a wedge or filler

• Bulgarian: клин (bg) m (klin)
• French: coinceur m

• Russian: клин (ru) m (klin)

(nautical) Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line

• Bulgarian: кнехт m (kneht)

block used to keep aircraft in position

• Russian: упор для колёс (upór dlja koljós), башмак (ru) m (bašmák)

Verb

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.
2. (intransitive) To fill up, as a cavity.
   • Fuller

     The woodwork […] exactly chocketh into joints.

3. (nautical) To insert a line in a chock.

Translations

to stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block

• Bulgarian: запирам (bg) (zapiram), слагам клин (slagam klin)

• Spanish: engalgar

(nautical) to insert a line in a chock

Derived terms

• chock full
• chocks away
• chock-a-block
• unchock

Adverb

chock (not comparable)

1. (nautical) Entirely; quite.

   chock home; chock aft

Etymology 2

French choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).

Noun

chock (plural chocks)

1. (obsolete) An encounter.

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To encounter.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

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

1. To make a dull sound.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 1

     She saw him hurry to the door, heard the bolt chock. He tried the latch.

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Swedish

Noun

chock c

1. shock

Declension

Declension of chock

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	chock	chocken	chocker	chockerna
genitive	chocks	chockens	chockers	chockernas

Related terms

• chocka
• chockartad
• chockera