chock

Meanings

1. Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
2. 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.

1. To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
2. To fill up, as a cavity.
3. To insert a line in a chock.

1. Entirely; quite.

1. An encounter.

1. To encounter.

1. Representing a dull sound.

1. To make a dull sound.

1. A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English *chokke (possibly attested in Middle English chokkefull), from Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from an Old Northern French variant of Old French çouche, çouche (“block, log”), of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *tsukka (compare Breton soc’h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”), itself borrowed from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz. Doublet of stock.