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Chock v. World English Historical Dictionary

Chock v. 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 v. [app. f. CHOCK sb.1]

1   † 1.  intr. To chock in: to fit in tightly or exactly; to wedge in. Obs. (Cf. CHOKE v.)

2 1662.  Fuller, Worthies, 149. The wood-work … exactly chocketh into the joynts again.

3 1786.  Phil. Trans., LXXVI. 43. A small cylinder of hard steel … made of a size so as just to chock in betwixt the extremities of the teeth.

4   2.  trans. To furnish, supply or fit with a chock or chocks; to make fast with a chock; to wedge (a wheel, cask, etc.); also with up.

5 1854.  Bartlett, Mex. Boundary, I. xii. 296. It was only by putting a shoulder to the wheels, and chocking them at every five or six feet, that these hills could be surmounted.

6 1859.  F. A. Griffiths, Artil. Man. (1862), 103. Chock the wheels of the light guns.

7 c. 1860.  H. Stuart, Seaman’s Catech., 64. They [casks] are bung up, and well chocked up with firewood.

8 1882.  Nares, Seamanship (ed. 6), 60. Have the waist netting well chocked and shored up.

9   3.  To place (a boat) upon chocks.

10 1840.  R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xxiv. 76. We got … the launch and pinnace hoisted, chocked, and griped.

11   Hence Chocking vbl. sb.; also attrib.

12 1859.  F. A. Griffiths, Artil. Man. (1862), 110. This is called scotching, or chocking, and the handspikes are called ‘chocking handspikes.’

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  † Chock v.2 and 3, obs. form of CHUCK, SHOCK.

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