Chock

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “Artificial anchor points are those constructed from equipment carried by the team. These are usually the chocks or pitons placed in cracks or bolts drilled in the rock.”

2. isim 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.
3. fiil To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.

   “Gondolas with drop or hopper doors not boarded over should have lading cleated and chocked so as to prevent shifting over doors.”

4. fiil To fill up, as a cavity.
5. fiil To insert a line in a chock.
6. zarf Entirely; quite.

   “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.”

7. isim An encounter.
8. fiil To encounter.
9. ünlem Representing a dull sound.

   “This chair, which had been purchased by a certain man as a birthday present for his wife, developed an annoying “chock, chock” noise after it had been used a few days.”

10. fiil To make a dull sound.

    “After some delay an apparently new chair was returned to the purchaser, and the incident seemed closed. Within forty-eight hours, however, it began to “chock” like the first chair, which it really was. The dealer had merely glued it up again and returned it.”

11. özel isim A surname.