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chock

Pronunciation: /tʃɒk/

The English word “chock” has 11 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
  2. Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
  3. An encounter.
  4. An illicit, fermented alcoholic beverage brewed on-site.

verb

  1. To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
  2. To fill up, as a cavity.
  3. To insert a line in a chock.
  4. To encounter.
  5. To make a dull sound.

adverb

  1. Entirely; quite.

interjection

  1. Representing a dull sound.

Etymology

From Middle English *chokke (possibly attested in Middle English chokkefull), from Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from an Old Northern French variant of Old French çouche, çouche (“block, log”), of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *tsukka (compare Breton soc’h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”), itself a metathetic borrowing of Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stick, stock,…

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