Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
2. (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.
3. (transitive) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To fill up, as a cavity.
5. (nautical) To insert a line in a chock.
6. (nautical) Entirely; quite.
7. (obsolete) An encounter.
8. (obsolete) To encounter.

Example Sentences

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 gave it full throttle.

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.

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

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

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 the basis of a true faith.

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.

Merchant vessels usually hoist a little on the halyards, so as to clear the sail from the top, then belay them and get the lee sheet chock home; then haul home the weather sheet, shivering the sail by the braces to help it home, and hoist on the halyards until the leaches are well taut, taking a turn with the braces, if the wind is fresh, and slacking them as the yard goes up.

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.

Word Forms

• chocks
• chocking
• chocked

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When Should You Use Chock?

Use chock when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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