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chock | undefined |
Any wooden block used as a wedge or filler
(nautical) 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.
Blocks made of either wood, plastic or metal, used to keep a parked aircraft in position.
* 2000 , Lindbergh: A Biography , by Leonard Mosley,
To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
To fill up, as a cavity.
* Fuller
(nautical) To insert a line in a chock.
(nautical) Entirely; quite.
To make a dull sound.
* 1913 , D.H. Lawrence,
Lacking a definition or value.
(mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
As a noun chock
is any wooden block used as a wedge or filler or chock can be (obsolete) an encounter.As a verb chock
is to stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch or chock can be (obsolete) to encounter or chock can be to make a dull sound.As an adverb chock
is (nautical) entirely; quite.As an adjective undefined is
lacking a definition or value.chock
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from (etyl) *?okka (compare Breton ).Noun
(en noun)page 82
- On April 28, 1927, on Dutch Flats, below San Diego, signaled chocks -away to those on the ground below him.
Verb
(en verb)- The woodwork exactly chocketh into joints.
Derived terms
* chock full * chocks away * chock-a-block * unchockAdverb
(-)- chock''' home; '''chock aft
Etymology 2
(etyl) choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).Etymology 3
Onomatopoeic.Verb
(en verb)- She saw him hurry to the door, heard the bolt chock . He tried the latch.
undefined
English
Adjective
(wikipedia undefined) (-)- The result of division by zero is undefined .
