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Chock adv. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Chock adv. Also choke. [Partly f. CHOCK sb. and v.1; but largely deduced from CHOCK-FULL.]

1   1.  As close or tight as can be; so as to press ‘dead’ against, stop ‘dead,’ etc.

2 1834.  Sir H. Taylor, Artevelde, II. III. i. I drew a shaft Chock to the steel, and … Aimed it at Serjeant Laubscher’s heart.

3 1856.  Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xxvii. 361. A newly-broken team-dog … carried one of the runners chock against the edge of the circle.

4 1860.  J. Kennedy, Swallow B., xiv. 134. It is the big wheel stopped as chock as a tombstone.

5 1880.  Mrs. Whitney, Odd or Even, xiii. 103. Seized up a great stone, and crowded it chock against the grinding, slipping wheel.

6   b.  with adverbs, as chock-aft, -home, -tight, -up.

7 1799.  J. M., in Naval Chron., II. 71. The small block is chock up to the truck.

8 1834.  M. Scott, Cruise Midge (1863), 13. Irresolute whether to run it choke up or haul it down again.

9 1840.  R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xvii. 46. We … ran her chock up to the yard. Ibid., xxv. 83. The seas … washing chock aft to the taffrail.

10 1865.  Dickens, Mut. Fr., I. xiv. Drawn chock-tight round his neck.

11 1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Chock-aft, Chock-full, Chock-home, Chock-up, &c. Denote as far aft, full, home, up, &c., as possible, or that which fits closely to one another.

12   c.  Chock-a-block (Naut.), said of a tackle with the two blocks run close together so that they touch each other—the limit of hoisting; transf. jammed or crammed close together.

13 1840.  R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xxv. 82. Hauling the reef-tackles chock-a-block.

14 1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Chock-a-block, or Chock and Block. Is the same with block-a-block and two-blocks.

15 1881.  W. C. Russell, Sailor’s Sweeth., II. ii. 122. They … hoisted it chock a block.

16 1885.  H. O. Forbes, Nat. Wand. E. Archip., III. viii. 259. Sideways, lengthwise, crossways, choke-a-block, as if the river had swept away a village or two and stranded them there anyhow.

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