| Chock 1. (v. t.) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask. 2. (v. i.) To fill up, as a cavity. 3. (n.) 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. 4. (n.) 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. 5. (adv.) Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft. 6. (v. t.) To encounter. 7. (n.) An encounter. Thesaurus Entries arrest, bar, barricade, bearing rein, bit, block, block up, blockade, bolt, brake, brim, chain, charge, check, checkrein, choke, choke off, clog, close, close off, close tight, close up, congest, constrict, countercheck, cram, crowd, curb, curb bit, damper, debar, dog, doorstop, drag, drag sail, drift anchor, drift sail, drogue, fetter, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up, freight, holdback, jam, jam-pack, lade, load, lock, martingale, obstruct, occlude, overfill, pack, pad, pelham, ram in, remora, satiate, saturate, scotch, sea anchor, shackle, shut off, shut out, shut tight, snaffle, spoke, squeeze, squeeze shut, stay, stifle, stop, stop up, strangle, strangulate, stuff, suffocate, supercharge, surfeit, top off, trammel, wad, weight |