chock
Speech parts
1. chock - Noun
2. chock - Verb
3. chock - Adverb
5. Chock - Proper noun
Meaning
To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
To fill up, as a cavity.
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.
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.
Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.
To encounter.
An encounter.
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You definitely have to be focused at certain times in your life and in your career, but at the end of the day, there's only so much you can do. Then you just have to chock it up to fate.
But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.
The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.
Everyone knows that Silicon Valley is chock full of fabulous people who do good while doing well.
chock the boat
it was chock-a-block full