Usually means: Wedge to prevent object movement.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. chock: Merriam-Webster
  2. chock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chock: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chock: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chock, chock: Wordnik
  7. chock: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Chock, chock: Wiktionary
  9. chock: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chock: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Chock, chock: Dictionary.com
  13. chock: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. chock: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Chock (TV Series), Chock (TV series), Chock (climbing), Chock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Chock: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. chock: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. chock: Rhymezone
  19. Chock: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. chock: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. chock: FreeDictionary.org
  22. chock: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. chock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. chock: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. chock: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chock: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chock: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chock: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. chock: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  3. CHOCK: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See chocked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
noun:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To fill up, as a cavity.
verb:  (nautical) To insert a line in a chock.
adverb:  (nautical) Entirely; quite.
noun:  (obsolete) An encounter.
verb:  (obsolete) To encounter.
verb:  To make a dull sound.
noun:  A surname.

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