chocks
noun
Meaning
- Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
- 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.
- To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
- To fill up, as a cavity.
- To insert a line in a chock.
- An encounter.
- To encounter.
- To make a dull sound.
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