CHOCK


Meaning of CHOCK in English

vi to fill up, as a cavity.

2. chock ·noun an encounter.

3. chock ·vt to encounter.

4. chock ·adv entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.

5. chock ·vt to stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

6. chock ·noun a heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. it has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, ·etc.

7. chock ·noun a wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, ·esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.

Webster English vocab.      Английский словарь Webster.