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chock
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??k/
- (General American) IPA(key): /t??k/
- Homophone: chalk (cot-caught merger)
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from Gaulish *'?okka (compare Breton soc’h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”)), itself borrowed from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz. Doublet of stock.
Noun
chock (plural chocks)
- Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
- (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.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
chock (third-person singular simple present chocks, present participle chocking, simple past and past participle chocked)
- (transitive) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To fill up, as a cavity.
- (nautical) To insert a line in a chock.
Derived terms
- unchock
Translations
Derived terms
(Note: chock full is not derived from this word. In fact, it is an alteration of the earlier choke-full, which most likely derives from a variant of the word cheek.)
Adverb
chock (not comparable)
- (nautical) Entirely; quite.
Translations
Etymology 2
French choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).
Noun
chock (plural chocks)
- (obsolete) An encounter.
Verb
chock (third-person singular simple present chocks, present participle chocking, simple past and past participle chocked)
- (obsolete) To encounter.
Etymology 3
Onomatopoeic.
Verb
chock (third-person singular simple present chocks, present participle chocking, simple past and past participle chocked)
- To make a dull sound.
References
- “chock”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN÷
- chock at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Partridge, Eric (2006): Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
Swedish
Noun
chock c
- shock
Declension
Related terms
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chocs
English
Noun
chocs
- plural of choc
French
Noun
chocs m
- plural of choc
Interlingua
Noun
chocs
- plural of choc
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