To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
To encounter.
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.
An encounter.
Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.
A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.
A lot consisting of sixty pieces; - a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.
A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.
A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.
The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.
A dog with long hair or shag; - called also shockdog.
A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.
To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
To subject to the action of an electrical discharge so as to cause a more or less violent depression or commotion of the nervous system.
To be occupied with making shocks.
To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
