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To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch;
as, to chock a wheel or cask. |
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To fill up, as a cavity. |
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A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is
desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or
prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it. |
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A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It
has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or
hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc. |
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Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft. |
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To encounter. |
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An encounter. |