Chock

Quick meaning: Chock is a noun meaning Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.

Meaning

Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To fill up, as a cavity.
3. (nautical) To insert a line in a chock.
4. (nautical) Entirely; quite.
5. (nautical) 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.
6. (obsolete) An encounter.
7. (obsolete) To encounter.

Example Sentences

Alejandro jumped out and set the emergency brake (chocking the left rear wheel with a wood block he kept behind the cabina).

Gondolas with drop or hopper doors not boarded over should have lading cleated and chocked so as to prevent shifting over doors.

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.

Artificial anchor points are those constructed from equipment carried by the team. These are usually the chocks or pitons placed in cracks or bolts drilled in the rock.

Word Forms

• chocks
• chocking
• chocked

Synonyms for chock

Depending on context, synonyms include wedge, chock-a-block.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wedge, chock-a-block, chockstone, scotch, dousing-chock, swedge.

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