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Definition of Chockablock
1. Adjective. Packed full to capacity. "Chowder chockablock with pieces of fish"
Definition of Chockablock
1. a. Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.
Definition of Chockablock
1. Adjective. (nautical) (of a ship's hoisting tackle) Having the blocks drawn close together so no further movement is possible, as when the tackle is hauled to the utmost. ¹
2. Adjective. (by extension) Jammed tightly together; very crowded; completely filled or stuffed. ¹
3. Adverb. In a crowded manner; as completely or closely as possible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chockablock
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chockablock
Literary usage of Chockablock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Thus, GA Sala, writing from Wellington, New Zealand, in 1886, to the London
Telegraph, and describing "the chockablock plethora at the hotels" and his ..."
2. The Song of the Plow: Being the English Chronicle by Maurice Henry Hewlett (1916)
"... And now is fallen a common mock When, hedging out its knaves and fools, It
stays them not, but chockablock With business, dies of its own rules, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Military Terms by Edward Samuel Farrow (1918)
"When the blocks are in contact the fall is said to be chockablock. Overhaul Park.—A
large repair station for motor-trucks. Overhead Cover. ..."
4. Selected Articles on the Open Versus Closed Shop (1912)
"great political parties up chockablock in the direction of right behavior?
Is it not possible that a factory may have four- fifths unionists with one-fifth ..."
5. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl, Donald Grant Mitchell (1899)
"Hold chockablock with green coffee, perhaps, and the fo'ksle full of fever.
Or suppose you reckon it's blindness, sir ? I've heard of such a thing as a ..."
6. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell, Nathan Haskell Dole, Forrest Morgan, Caroline Ticknor (1898)
"Hold chockablock with green coffee, perhaps, and the fo'ksle full of fever.
Or suppose you reckon it's blindness, sir ? I've heard of such a thing as a ..."
7. The Catskills Alive! by Francine Silverman (2003)
"His namesake seafood bouillabaisse — chockablock with mussels, lobster, scallops
and shrimp served over grilled French bread - could not have been fresher. ..."
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