CHOCKING

Verb

chocking

present participle of chock

Source: Wiktionary

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CHOCK

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

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