chock

chock [chok] ExamplesWord Origin See more synonyms for chock on Thesaurus.com noun

1. a wedge or block of wood, metal, or the like, for filling in a space, holding an object steady, etc.
2. Nautical.
   1. any of various heavy metal fittings on a deck or wharf that serve as fairleads for cables or chains.
   2. a shaped support or cradle for a ship’s boat, barrel, etc.
   3. a small wooden piece or timber for filling a gap, reinforcing an angle, etc., in a wooden vessel.
3. Metalworking. a bearing supporting the end of a rolling mill.
4. Mining. a roof support made of cribbing filled with stones.Compare cog3(def 2).

verb (used with object)

5. to furnish with or secure by a chock or chocks.
6. Nautical. to place (a boat) upon chocks.

adverb

7. as close or tight as possible: chock against the edge.

Origin of chock Middle English Anglo-French choque (compare modern Picard choke big log, Normandy dial. chouque), Old French çoche (French soche); of uncertain origin Related Words for chocking lade, stuff, pile, carry, cram, pack, stack, store, fill, load, throng, crowd, bind, squeeze, wedge, shove, ram, overcrowd, swamp, stream Examples from the Web for chocking Historical Examples of chocking

He floundered out in mighty jumps and came swinging along the shore, chocking and grunting fiercely.

Wood Folk at School

William J. Long

Mark you this,and leaning over, he took from one of the guns a chocking quoin of hickory-wood banded with copper.

In Search of Mademoiselle

George Gibbs

British Dictionary definitions for chocking chock noun

1. a block or wedge of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
2. nautical
   1. a fairlead consisting of a ringlike device with an opening at the top through which a rope is placed
   2. a cradle-like support for a boat, barrel, etc
3. mountaineering See nut (def. 10)

verb (tr)

4. (usually foll by up) British to cram fullchocked up with newspapers
5. to fit with or secure by a chock
6. to support (a boat, barrel, etc) on chocks

adverb

7. as closely or tightly as possiblechock against the wall

Word Origin for chock C17: of uncertain origin; perhaps related to Old French çoche log; compare Provençal soca tree stump Word Origin and History for chocking chock n.

1670s, “lumpy piece of wood,” possibly from Old North French choque “a block” (Old French çoche “log,” 12c.; Modern French souche “stump, stock, block”), from Gaulish *tsukka “a tree trunk, stump.”

chock adv.

“tightly, close up against,” 1799, back formation from chock-full.