What is the meaning of CHOCK. Phrases containing CHOCK
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1. Rigging blocks that are so tight against one another that they cannot be further tightened. 2. Describing something that is full up.
Completely full, stuffed, Squeezed together. e.g. "There's no way I can get any more into the boot of the car, it's already chock a block"
Noun. Chocolate. Also chocko or the more childlike term chockies. Adj. Very crowded, busy. Also phrased as chocko. From the expression chock-a-block.
adj closely packed together. You might use this to describe your dating schedule or your attic, unless you are unforgivably ugly and you live in a flat, in which case you’d have to think up something else to use it on. The examples here are provided as-is, you know; they don’t necessarily work for everyone. It’s possible that the word has a quite unfortunate origin — it may have originally referred to the area where black slaves were once lined up on blocks to be sold. It’s also possible that it stems from maritime usage, referring to when a block and tackle were jammed against each other to stop the load moving.
chocolate biscuits
Close, tight, fitting closely together.
very full (also chockers) ‘I’m chock a block.’
Chock−vull is Dorset slang for full.
1. When the blocks of a tackle meet. Also referred to as "Block on Block" or "Chock-a-Block". 2. Uptight. Reached your limit.
To put a wedge under a thing to prevent its moving.
piece of wood to stop a cask from rolling
Entirely full.
Chocko is derogatory British slang for a black person.
Chocker is British slang for irritated; fed up; full.
chockablock | chock-a-block | chock-full
completely full of people or things, crammed full
Black person who acts or speaks like a white person
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a.
Full to the brim; quite full; chock-full.
v. t.
To encounter.
n.
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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An encounter.
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A chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping; as, a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground.
n.
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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One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck.
v. t.
To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.
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Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.
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Quite full; choke-full.
v. i.
To fill up, as a cavity.
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A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock.
adv.
Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.
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v. t.
To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
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