[app. f. CHOCK sb.1]
† 1. intr. To chock in: to fit in tightly or exactly; to wedge in. Obs. (Cf. CHOKE v.)
1662. Fuller, Worthies, 149. The wood-work … exactly chocketh into the joynts again.
1786. Phil. Trans., LXXVI. 43. A small cylinder of hard steel … made of a size so as just to chock in betwixt the extremities of the teeth.
2. trans. To furnish, supply or fit with a chock or chocks; to make fast with a chock; to wedge (a wheel, cask, etc.); also with up.
1854. Bartlett, Mex. Boundary, I. xii. 296. It was only by putting a shoulder to the wheels, and chocking them at every five or six feet, that these hills could be surmounted.
1859. F. A. Griffiths, Artil. Man. (1862), 103. Chock the wheels of the light guns.
c. 1860. H. Stuart, Seaman’s Catech., 64. They [casks] are bung up, and well chocked up with firewood.
1882. Nares, Seamanship (ed. 6), 60. Have the waist netting well chocked and shored up.
3. To place (a boat) upon chocks.
1840. R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xxiv. 76. We got … the launch and pinnace hoisted, chocked, and griped.
Hence Chocking vbl. sb.; also attrib.
1859. F. A. Griffiths, Artil. Man. (1862), 110. This is called scotching, or chocking, and the handspikes are called ‘chocking handspikes.’
† Chock v.2 and 3, obs. form of CHUCK, SHOCK.
