Definitions for chock

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Spelling: [chok]

IPA: /tʃɒk/

Chock is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in chock (cchko).

Definitions for chock

noun

1. a wedge or block of wood, metal, or the like, for filling in a space, holding an object steady, etc.
2. Nautical. any of various heavy metal fittings on a deck or wharf that serve as fairleads for cables or chains. a shaped support or cradle for a ship's boat, barrel, etc. a small wooden piece or timber for filling a gap, reinforcing an angle, etc., in a wooden vessel.
3. Metalworking. a bearing supporting the end of a rolling mill.
4. Mining. a roof support made of cribbing filled with stones. Compare cog3 (def 2).

adverb

1. as close or tight as possible:

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with or secure by a chock or chocks.
2. Nautical. to place (a boat) upon chocks.

Origin of chock

Middle English Anglo-French choque (compare modern Picard choke big log, Normandy dial. chouque), Old French çoche (French soche); of uncertain origin

Examples for chock

It was chock full, and Jim and I have to sleep under the table.

I guess the palace will be chock full, Button-Bright; don't you think so?

According to the channel, the new, Western-friendly government in Kiev is chock full of fascists and neo-Nazis.

His mantel is chock full of Oscars and Grammys (three of each).

Then: "My room is chock full of toys," the Banker said reflectively.

Beyond Tosh, the year was chock full of rape jokes, many of them baffling.

And when I got into this county I found it chock full of armies.

The problem is, Europe seems to be chock full of unique, one time problems with its banking system.

The prisons are chock full of them, and the mass held in abhorrence.'

Thus, the SHU was chock full of contraband, because all the x-ray machines were used by the clinics and not the guards.