chock

Meaning

Noun

1. Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
2. 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.

Verb

1. (transitive) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To fill up, as a cavity.
3. To insert a line in a chock.

Adv

Entirely; quite.

Verb

To encounter.

Intj

Representing a dull sound.

Verb

To make a dull sound.

Synonyms

wedge

block

shoe

👞

shore

clog

support

cleat

chock-a-block

glut

jam-packed

nog

nook

overstuff

pad

quoin

retainer

shim

shore up

sprag

stanchion

stop dog

stopping

stud

stuff

underpin

chuck-full

make fast with

retaining device

timber crib

dog driver

limit stop

cable chock

angle

warping chock

cable guide

catch

chuck

corner

cram

engorge

fairlead

Translations

cale

calzatoia

cùneo

calzo

coin

cuña

Keil

falca

chaveta

cuneo

wig

tascó

passacavo

festkeilen

coinceur

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tʃɒk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: -

Cognate with Breton: soc’h

In summary

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 borrowed from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz. Doublet of stock.