Definition of chock

• v. t. - To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
• v. i. - To fill up, as a cavity.
• n. - 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.
• n. - 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.
• adv. - Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.
• v. t. - To encounter.
• n. - An encounter.