chock

1. (transitive) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.Examples: "Gondolas with drop or hopper doors not boarded over should have lading cleated and chocked so as to prevent shifting over doors."; "Alejandro jumped out and set the emergency brake (chocking the left rear wheel with a wood block he kept behind the cabina)."

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To fill up, as a cavity.Examples: "When the bells ring, the wood-work thereof shaketh and grapeth (no defect, but perfect of structure), and exactly chocketh into the joynts again; so that it may pass for the lively embleme of the sincere Christian, who, though he hath motum trepidationis, of fear and trembling, stands firmly fixt on the basis of a true faith."

3. (nautical) To insert a line in a chock.

1. (nautical) Entirely; quite.Examples: "Tom Hickey, our good-humored, blundering cabin-boy, decorated since poor Schubert's death with the dignities of cook, is in that little dirty cot on the starboard side; the rest are bedded in rows, Mr. Brooks and myself chock aft."; "Merchant vessels usually hoist a little on the halyards, so as to clear the sail from the top, then belay them and get the lee sheet chock home; then haul home the weather sheet, shivering the sail by the braces to help it home, and hoist on the halyards until the leaches are well taut, taking a turn with the braces, if the wind is fresh, and slacking them as the yard goes up."

1. (obsolete) An encounter.

1. (obsolete) To encounter.