CHUCK

noun a sudden, small noise.

2. chuck ·noun a short throw; a toss.

3. chuck ·noun the chuck or call of a hen.

4. chuck ·vt to call, as a hen her chickens.

5. chuck ·noun a slight blow or pat under the chin.

6. chuck ·vt to strike gently; to give a gentle blow to.

7. chuck ·noun a word of endearment;

— corrupted from chick.

8. chuck ·noun a small pebble;

— called also chuckstone and chuckiestone.

9. chuck ·vi to chuckle; to laugh.

10. chuck ·vt to toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch.

11. chuck ·noun a game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones.

12. chuck ·vi to make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.

13. chuck ·noun a contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.

14. chuck ·vt to place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.

15. chuck ·noun a piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast.