chocked
simple past tense and past participle of chock
Source: Wiktionary
Chock, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chocked; p. pr. & vb. n. Chocking.]
Definition: To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
Chock, v. i.
Definition: To fill up, as a cavity. "The woodwork . . . exactly chocketh into joints." Fuller.
Chock, n.
1. A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.
2. (Naut.)
Definition: A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.
Chock, adv. (Naut.)
Definition: Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.
Chock, v. t. Etym: [F. choquer. Cf. Shock, v. t.]
Definition: To encounter. [Obs.]
Chock, n.
Definition: An encounter. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2025
(adjective) not quite exact or correct; “the approximate time was 10 o’clock”; “a rough guess”; “a ballpark estimate”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
