chock
chock is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, adverb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
- intransitive verb. To fill up, as a cavity.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- adverb. Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.
- transitive verb. To encounter.
- noun. An encounter.
- noun. a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
- verb. support on chocks
"chock the boat"
- verb. secure with chocks
- adverb. as completely as possible
"it was chock-a-block full"
Synonyms
Common word forms
chocks, chocked, chocker, chockful, chocking
Words from these letters
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