Chock

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /tʃɒk/
• Rhymes: -É’k

From Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from Gaulish *śokka (compare Breton soc’h ("thick"), Old Irish tócht ("part, piece")).

Full definition of chock

Noun

1. Any wooden block used as a wedge or filler
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. Blocks made of either wood, plastic or metal, used to keep a parked aircraft in position.
• 2000, Lindbergh: A Biography, by Leonard Mosley, page 82On April 28, 1927, on Dutch Flats, below San Diego, Charles Lindbergh signaled chocks-away to those on the ground below him.

Verb

1. (transitive) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
2. (intransitive) To fill up, as a cavity.
• FullerThe woodwork ... exactly chocketh into joints.
3. (nautical) To insert a line in a chock.

Derived terms

• chock full
• chocks away
• chock-a-block
• unchock

Adverb

1. (nautical) Entirely; quite.chock home; chock aft

French choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).

Noun

1. (obsolete) An encounter.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To encounter.

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

1. To make a dull sound.
• 1913, D.H. Lawrence, ,She saw him hurry to the door, heard the bolt chock. He tried the latch.----