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

Adv

Entirely; quite.

Verb

To encounter.

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tʃɒk/

Etymology

From Middle English, 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.