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Gagged vs Chocked - What's the difference?

gagged | chocked |

As verbs the difference between gagged and chocked

is that gagged is past participle of gag while chocked is past tense of chock.

gagged

English

Verb

(head)

    • chocked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (chock)

    • chock

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from (etyl) *?okka (compare Breton ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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, 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)
  • To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
  • To fill up, as a cavity.
  • * Fuller
    • The woodwork exactly chocketh into joints.
  • (nautical) To insert a line in a chock.
    • Derived terms
    * chock full * chocks away * chock-a-block * unchock

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (nautical) Entirely; quite.
    • chock''' home; '''chock aft

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An encounter.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To encounter.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 3

    Onomatopoeic.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a dull sound.
  • * 1913 , D.H. Lawrence,
    • She saw him hurry to the door, heard the bolt chock . He tried the latch.
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