chock.
Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
Meaning & usage
Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
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.
Where this word 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.
To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
To fill up, as a cavity.
To insert a line in a chock.
Where this word 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.
Entirely; quite.
Where this word 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.
An encounter.
Where this word comes from
French choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).
To encounter.
Where this word comes from
French choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).
Representing a dull sound.
Where this word comes from
Onomatopoeic.
To make a dull sound.
Where this word comes from
Onomatopoeic.
An illicit, fermented alcoholic beverage brewed on-site.
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