chock
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chock¹
- /tʃɒk/ UK
- /t͡ʃɑk/ US
Sounds like chalk (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒk
Where it comes from
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, piece of wood”). Doublet of stock.
noun chocks
- Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling. On April 28, 1927, on Dutch Flats, below San Diego, Charles Lindbergh signaled chocks-away to those on the ground below him. A young mechanic named Douglas Corrigan nipped under the wing and pulled them away. Lindbergh gunned the plane and rolled it over the baked clay surface of the field, then gav
- 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.
verb chocks · chocking · chocked
- To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch. Gondolas with drop or hopper doors not boarded over should have lading cleated and chocked so as to prevent shifting over doors.
- To fill up, as a cavity. When the bells ring, the wood-work thereof shaketh and grapeth (no defect, but perfect of structure), and exactly chocketh into the joynts again; so that it may pass for the lively embleme of the sincere Christian, who, though he hath motum trepidationis, of fear and trembling, stands firmly fixt on
- To insert a line in a chock.
adverb
- Entirely; quite. Tom Hickey, our good-humored, blundering cabin-boy, decorated since poor Schubert's death with the dignities of cook, is in that little dirty cot on the starboard side; the rest are bedded in rows, Mr. Brooks and myself chock aft.
chock²
- /tʃɒk/ UK
- /t͡ʃɑk/ US
Sounds like chalk (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒk
Where it comes from
French choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).
noun chocks
- An encounter.
verb chocks · chocking · chocked
- To encounter.
chock³
- /tʃɒk/ UK
- /t͡ʃɑk/ US
Sounds like chalk (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒk
Where it comes from
Onomatopoeic.
interjection
- Representing a dull sound. This chair, which had been purchased by a certain man as a birthday present for his wife, developed an annoying “chock, chock” noise after it had been used a few days.
verb chocks · chocking · chocked
- To make a dull sound. After some delay an apparently new chair was returned to the purchaser, and the incident seemed closed. Within forty-eight hours, however, it began to “chock” like the first chair, which it really was. The dealer had merely glued it up again and returned it.
chock⁴
- /tʃɒk/ UK
- /t͡ʃɑk/ US
Sounds like chalk (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒk
noun
- An illicit, fermented alcoholic beverage brewed on-site.
Chock⁵
Where it comes from
* As an English surname, variant of Shock.
* As a German surname, Americanized from Zschoche, Zschocke, from the placename Zsochochau in Saxony or Tschocke in Silesia, of Slavic origin.
* As a Slovene surname, Americanized from Čok, from obsolete čok (“tree stump”).
* As a Chinese surname, Romanizaed from 卓 (zhuó), see Zhuo.
proper noun Chocks
- A surname.
Translations
Every language
noun object used as a wedge or filler
| Español | calzo, calza, calce, alza |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 手歯止め, チョック |
| 中文 | 輪擋 /轮挡 |
| Português | calço |
| Français | coinceur |
| Deutsch | Radvorleger |
| Italiano | calzatoia |
| Русский | клин klin, упо́р для колёс upór dlja koljós, башма́к bašmák |
noun nautical: fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line
| Français | remplissage, tin |
|---|
verb to stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block
| Español | engalgar |
|---|
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title = {chock},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-05}
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