chock

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive), Adverb

CIDE DICTIONARY

chock, v. t. 

 To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.  [1913 Webster]

chock, v. i. 

 To fill up, as a cavity.  Fuller.  [1913 Webster]

chock, 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.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

chock, adv. 

 Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.  [1913 Webster]

chock, v. t. [F. choquer. Cf. Shock, v. t.].

 To encounter.  [1913 Webster]

chock, n. 

 An encounter.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

chock, n., v., & adv.
--n. a block or wedge of wood to check motion, esp. of a cask or a wheel.
--v.tr.
1 fit or make fast with chocks.
2 (usu. foll. by up) Brit. cram full.
--adv. as closely or tightly as possible.

Etymology

prob. f. OF {ccedil}ouche, {ccedil}oche, of unkn. orig.

THESAURUS

chock

arrest, bar, barricade, bearing rein, bit, block, block up, blockade, bolt, brake, brim, chain, charge, check, checkrein, choke, choke off, clog, close, close off, close tight, close up, congest, constrict, countercheck, cram, crowd, curb, curb bit, damper, debar, dog, doorstop, drag, drag sail, drift anchor, drift sail, drogue, fetter, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up, freight, holdback, jam, jam-pack, lade, load, lock, martingale, obstruct, occlude, overfill, pack, pad, pelham, ram in, remora, satiate, saturate, scotch, sea anchor, shackle, shut off, shut out, shut tight, snaffle, spoke, squeeze, squeeze shut, stay, stifle, stop, stop up, strangle, strangulate, stuff, suffocate, supercharge, surfeit, top off, trammel, wad, weight