Word
chock
US/ˈtʃɑk/
UK/tʃˈɒk/
Definitions
02nautical fitting
n. a metal or wooden part on a ship that guides a rope and keeps it in place.
n. a structural fitting on a deck or bulwark through which a mooring line or cable is passed to prevent chafing and restrict lateral movement.
“The sailor pulled the rope through the metal chock on the side of the boat.”
“The heavy mooring line was threaded through the bow chock to ensure the vessel remained stable against the pier during the rising tide.”
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04completely
adv. entirely or completely; almost always used in the phrase 'chock-full'.
adv. entirely or quite; survives almost exclusively as an intensifier in the compound 'chock-full'.
“The small suitcase was chock-full of souvenirs from his trip to Italy.”
“The report was chock-full of technical data that required several hours of careful analysis by the engineering team.”
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Etymology
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.
French choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).
Onomatopoeic.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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