chock

Wheels being secured with chocks.

Meanings

Noun

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

Verb

  • To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
  • To fill up, as a cavity.
  • To insert a line in a chock.
  • To encounter.
  • To make a dull sound.

Adverb

  • Entirely; quite.

Origin

  • Middle English, from Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from an Old Northern French variant of Old French çouche, çouche, of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *'śokka (compare Breton soc’h ("thick"), Old Irish tócht), itself borrowed from Frankish *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz. stock.
  • French choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).
  • Onomatopoeic.

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