[f. CHOKE v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. to CHOKE; obstruction of the breath; blocking up of a passage, constriction of a tube; suffocation, smothering.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 72. Chekenynge [1499 Pynson Chowkinge] suffocacio.
1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., Epit. (1612), 374. [Godwin] execrated vpon himselfe a choaking.
1635. J. Babington, Pyrotechnia, iii. 4. A great cord will not serve for a small [rocket], in regard that it will make too great a choaking. Ibid., 8. Betweene the choaking of your Rocket and the end of the vent.
1803. Med. Jrnl., X. 215. Alarming sensations of suffocation or choaking.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola (1880), I. I. i. 18. The choking of the narrow inlets with mules and carts.
