2. Verb. (third-person singular of chock) ¹
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Definition of Chocks
1. chock [v] - See also: chock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chocks
Literary usage of Chocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"The simplest way is to place double groove chocks between the top and middle and
the middle and bottom rolls, and then set them in the housings ..."
2. A Text-book of Coal-mining: For the Use of Colliery Managers and Others by Herbert W. Hughes (1904)
"152) between the two vertical props. " chocks," or " Cogs. ... If applied in the
face, these chocks are built on a small heap of loose material, ..."
3. Naval Architecture: A Manual on Laying-off Iron, Steel and Composite Vessels by Thomas Henry Watson (1898)
"12. Gun galleries. 13. Conning tower. 14. Pilot bridge. 15. Boat davits and chocks.
NOs. 1, 2, 5, and 6 to 12, are explained on pages 79, 83, 34, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"... of bands of coloured warp, and chocks whore both warp and weft are particoloured.
In the latter caso shuttles, or at least cops, equal in number to the ..."
5. The Elements of Mining and Quarrying by Clement le Neve Foster (1903)
"These columns, either left hollow or filled with rubbish, and known as chocks
and coys in this country, and as pigsties in Australia (fig. ..."
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