CHUCK
First name CHUCK's origin is English. CHUCK means "a man: variant of carl". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CHUCK below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of chuck.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with CHUCK and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming CHUCK
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CHUCK AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH CHUCK (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (huck) - Names That Ends with huck:
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (uck) - Names That Ends with uck:
shattuck starbuck ruck buckRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ck) - Names That Ends with ck:
dirck bardrick kenrick breck alarick aldrick aleck alhrick alrick aranck arick arrick audrick aurick barrick benwick bick braddock brick brock broderick brodrick carrick chick cormack cormick dack darick darrick darrock dedrick delrick derrick dick diedrick dierck domenick dominick eddrick edrick eldrick elrick frederick friedrick garrick henrick jack jamarick jerick jerrick jock keddrick kedrick kendrick kerrick maccormack mackendrick maddock maverick mavrick merrick mick murdock nick orick osrick pollock rick riddock rock roderick rodrick sedgewick shaddock tarick tedrick vareck wanrrick wolfrick zack vick whitlock warwick warrick ullock stock stanwick sherlock orrick meldrick hillock frick fitzpatrick emerick chadwick blackNAMES RHYMING WITH CHUCK (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (chuc) - Names That Begins with chuc:
chuchipRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (chu) - Names That Begins with chu:
chu chu'a chu'mana chu'si chubasca chuma chumani chunta churchill churchyllRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ch) - Names That Begins with ch:
cha cha'akmongwi cha'kwaina cha'risa cha'tima chaba chabah chace chad chadburn chadburne chadbyrne chadwi chadwik chadwyk chafulumisa chaga chagai chaim chaisly chait chaitra chaka chakierra chalchiuitl chalina chalise chalmer chalmers chamorra chamunda chamyle chan chana chanah chanan chance chancellor chancey chanda chandara chandi chandler chandra chandria chane chanel chanell chanelle chaney chanler chann channa channe channelle channing channon chano chanoch chansomps chantae chantal chantalle chantay chante chantel chantell chantelle chantrell chanya chapa chapalu chapin chapman chappel chappell char chardae chardanae chardonnay charee charion charis charise charissa chariste charity charla charlaineNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CHUCK:
First Names which starts with 'ch' and ends with 'ck':
First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'k':
caddarik capek catterick catterik cermak clark corrick cynerik cynrik cyrekEnglish Words Rhyming CHUCK
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CHUCK AS A WHOLE:
chucking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chuck |
noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chuck |
chuck | noun (n.) The chuck or call of a hen. |
noun (n.) A sudden, small noise. | |
noun (n.) A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick. | |
noun (n.) A slight blow or pat under the chin. | |
noun (n.) A short throw; a toss. | |
noun (n.) A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon. | |
noun (n.) A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone. | |
noun (n.) A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones. | |
noun (n.) A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast. | |
verb (v. i.) To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck. | |
verb (v. i.) To chuckle; to laugh. | |
verb (v. t.) To call, as a hen her chickens. | |
verb (v. t.) To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to. | |
verb (v. t.) To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch. | |
verb (v. t.) To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck. |
chuckling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chuckle |
chuckle | noun (n.) A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction, exultation, or derision. |
verb (v. t.) To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck. | |
verb (v. t.) To fondle; to cocker. | |
verb (v. i.) To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision. |
chucklehead | noun (n.) A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce. |
chuckleheaded | adjective (a.) Having a large head; thickheaded; dull; stupid. |
putchuck | noun (n.) Same as Pachak. |
witchuck | noun (n.) The sand martin, or bank swallow. |
woodchuck | noun (n.) A common large North American marmot (Arctomys monax). It is usually reddish brown, more or less grizzled with gray. It makes extensive burrows, and is often injurious to growing crops. Called also ground hog. |
noun (n.) The yaffle, or green woodpecker. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CHUCK (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (huck) - English Words That Ends with huck:
cornshuck | noun (n.) The husk covering an ear of Indian corn. |
shuck | noun (n.) A shock of grain. |
noun (n.) A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut. | |
noun (n.) The shell of an oyster or clam. | |
verb (v. t.) To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To remove or take off (shucks); hence, to discard; to lay aside; -- usually with off. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (uck) - English Words That Ends with uck:
buck | noun (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. |
noun (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. | |
noun (n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits. | |
noun (n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. | |
noun (n.) A male Indian or negro. | |
noun (n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. | |
noun (n.) The beech tree. | |
verb (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching. | |
verb (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water. | |
verb (v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores. | |
verb (v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does. | |
verb (v. i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule. | |
verb (v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees. | |
verb (v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2. |
canuck | noun (n.) A Canadian. |
noun (n.) A small or medium-sized hardy horse, common in Canada. |
cluck | noun (n.) The call of a hen to her chickens. |
noun (n.) A click. See 3d Click, 2. | |
verb (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen. | |
verb (v. t.) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens. |
duck | noun (n.) A pet; a darling. |
noun (n.) A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing. | |
noun (n.) The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates. | |
verb (v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw. | |
verb (v. t.) To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy. | |
verb (v. t.) To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion. | |
verb (v. i.) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip. | |
verb (v. i.) To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow. | |
verb (v. t.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae. | |
verb (v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water. |
earlduck | noun (n.) The red-breasted merganser (Merganser serrator). |
eelbuck | noun (n.) An eelpot or eel basket. |
geoduck | noun (n.) A gigantic clam (Glycimeris generosa) of the Pacific coast of North America, highly valued as an article of food. |
haiduck | noun (n.) Formerly, a mercenary foot soldier in Hungary, now, a halberdier of a Hungarian noble, or an attendant in German or Hungarian courts. |
heartstruck | adjective (a.) Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind. |
adjective (a.) Shocked with pain, fear, or remorse; dismayed; heartstricken. |
kalmuck | noun (n.) See Calmucks. |
noun (n.) A kind of shaggy cloth, resembling bearskin. | |
noun (n.) A coarse, dyed, cotton cloth, made in Prussia. |
luck | noun (n.) That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill. |
lightstruck | adjective (a.) Damaged by accidental exposure to light; light-fogged; -- said of plates or films. |
malbrouck | noun (n.) A West African arboreal monkey (Cercopithecus cynosurus). |
misluck | noun (n.) Ill luck; misfortune. |
moonstruck | adjective (a.) Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic. |
adjective (a.) Produced by the supposed influence of the moon. | |
adjective (a.) Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable for food, as fishes, by such supposed influence. |
muck | noun (n.) Dung in a moist state; manure. |
noun (n.) Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps. | |
noun (n.) Anything filthy or vile. | |
noun (n.) Money; -- in contempt. | |
adjective (a.) Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork. | |
verb (v. t.) To manure with muck. | |
() abbreviation of Amuck. |
pluck | noun (n.) The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch. |
noun (n.) The heart, liver, and lights of an animal. | |
noun (n.) Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude. | |
noun (n.) The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4. | |
verb (v. t.) To pull; to draw. | |
verb (v. t.) Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes. | |
verb (v. t.) To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl. | |
verb (v. t.) To reject at an examination for degrees. | |
verb (v. i.) To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown. | |
verb (v. t.) The lyrie. |
potluck | noun (n.) Whatever may chance to be in the pot, or may be provided for a meal. |
prongbuck | noun (n.) The springbuck. |
noun (n.) The pronghorn. |
puck | noun (n.) A celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night;" -- called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc. |
noun (n.) The goatsucker. | |
noun (n.) A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as the object to be driven through the goals. |
reedbuck | noun (n.) See Rietboc. |
roebuck | noun (n.) A small European and Asiatic deer (Capreolus capraea) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. This, the smallest European deer, is very nimble and graceful. It always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds. |
ruck | noun (n.) A roc. |
noun (n.) A heap; a rick. | |
noun (n.) The common sort, whether persons or things; as, the ruck in a horse race. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease; as, to ruck up a carpet. | |
verb (v. t.) A wrinkle or crease in a piece of cloth, or in needlework. | |
verb (v. i.) To cower; to huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs. |
sawbuck | noun (n.) A sawhorse. |
shelduck | noun (n.) The sheldrake. |
skeelduck | noun (n.) Alt. of Skeelgoose |
springbuck | noun (n.) A South African gazelle (Gazella euchore) noted for its graceful form and swiftness, and for its peculiar habit of springing lighty and suddenly into the air. It has a white dorsal stripe, expanding into a broad patch of white on the rump and tail. Called also springer. |
stonebuck | noun (n.) See Steinbock. |
stuck | noun (n.) A thrust. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Stick | |
() imp. & p. p. of Stick. |
suck | noun (n.) The act of drawing with the mouth. |
noun (n.) That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast. | |
noun (n.) A small draught. | |
noun (n.) Juice; succulence. | |
verb (v. t.) To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air. | |
verb (v. t.) To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast. | |
verb (v. t.) To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground. | |
verb (v. t.) To draw or drain. | |
verb (v. t.) To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up. | |
verb (v. i.) To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube. | |
verb (v. i.) To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking. | |
verb (v. i.) To draw in; to imbibe; to partake. |
teetuck | noun (n.) The rock pipit. |
teeuck | noun (n.) The lapwing. |
truck | noun (n.) Exchange of commodities; barter. |
noun (n.) Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market. | |
noun (n.) The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system. | |
verb (v. i.) A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage. | |
verb (v. i.) A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles. | |
verb (v. i.) A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; -- sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels. | |
verb (v. i.) A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through. | |
verb (v. i.) A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes. | |
verb (v. i.) A freight car. | |
verb (v. i.) A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies. | |
verb (v. t.) To transport on a truck or trucks. | |
verb (v. t.) To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust. | |
verb (v. i.) To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal. |
tuck | noun (n.) A long, narrow sword; a rapier. |
noun (n.) The beat of a drum. | |
noun (n.) A horizontal sewed fold, such as is made in a garment, to shorten it; a plait. | |
noun (n.) A small net used for taking fish from a larger one; -- called also tuck-net. | |
noun (n.) A pull; a lugging. | |
noun (n.) The part of a vessel where the ends of the bottom planks meet under the stern. | |
noun (n.) Food; pastry; sweetmeats. | |
verb (v. t.) To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck up one's sleeves. | |
verb (v. t.) To make a tuck or tucks in; as, to tuck a dress. | |
verb (v. t.) To inclose; to put within; to press into a close place; as, to tuck a child into a bed; to tuck a book under one's arm, or into a pocket. | |
verb (v. t.) To full, as cloth. | |
verb (v. i.) To contract; to draw together. |
tussuck | noun (n.) See Tussock. |
wonderstruck | adjective (a.) Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CHUCK (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (chuc) - Words That Begins with chuc:
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (chu) - Words That Begins with chu:
chub | noun (n.) A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidae or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc. |
chubbed | adjective (a.) Chubby. |
chubbedness | noun (n.) The state of being chubby. |
chubby | adjective (a.) Like a chub; plump, short, and thick. |
chuet | noun (n.) Minced meat. |
chufa | noun (n.) A sedgelike plant (Cyperus esculentus) producing edible tubers, native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions; the earth almond. |
chuff | noun (n.) A coarse or stupid fellow. |
adjective (a.) Stupid; churlish. |
chuffiness | noun (n.) The quality of being chuffy. |
chuffy | adjective (a.) Fat or puffed out in the cheeks. |
adjective (a.) Rough; clownish; surly. |
chulan | noun (n.) The fragrant flowers of the Chloranthus inconspicuus, used in China for perfuming tea. |
chum | noun (n.) A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend. |
noun (n.) Chopped pieces of fish used as bait. | |
verb (v. i.) To occupy a chamber with another; as, to chum together at college. |
chumming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chum |
chump | noun (n.) A short, thick, heavy piece of wood. |
chunam | noun (n.) Quicklime; also, plaster or mortar. |
chunk | noun (n.) A short, thick piece of anything. |
chunky | adjective (a.) Short and thick. |
church | noun (n.) A building set apart for Christian worship. |
noun (n.) A Jewish or heathen temple. | |
noun (n.) A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together. | |
noun (n.) A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church. | |
noun (n.) The collective body of Christians. | |
noun (n.) Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm. | |
noun (n.) The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil. | |
verb (v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women. |
churching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Church |
churchdom | noun (n.) The institution, government, or authority of a church. |
churchgoer | noun (n.) One who attends church. |
churchgoing | adjective (a.) Habitually attending church. |
adjective (a.) Summoning to church. |
churchism | noun (n.) Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism. |
churchless | adjective (a.) Without a church. |
churchlike | adjective (a.) Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. |
churchliness | noun (n.) Regard for the church. |
churchly | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or suitable for, the church; ecclesiastical. |
churchman | noun (n.) An ecclesiastic or clergyman. |
noun (n.) An Episcopalian, or a member of the Established Church of England. | |
noun (n.) One was is attached to, or attends, church. |
churchmanly | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. |
churchmanship | noun (n.) The state or quality of being a churchman; attachment to the church. |
churchship | noun (n.) State of being a church. |
churchwarden | noun (n.) One of the officers (usually two) in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service. |
noun (n.) A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube. |
churchwardenship | noun (n.) The office of a churchwarden. |
churchy | adjective (a.) Relating to a church; unduly fond of church forms. |
churchyard | noun (n.) The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. |
churl | noun (n.) A rustic; a countryman or laborer. |
noun (n.) A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor. | |
noun (n.) A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard. | |
adjective (a.) Churlish; rough; selfish. |
churlish | adjective (a.) Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. |
adjective (a.) Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals. |
churlishness | noun (n.) Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy. |
churly | adjective (a.) Rude; churlish; violent. |
churme | noun (n.) Alt. of Chirm |
churning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Churn |
noun (n.) The act of one who churns. | |
noun (n.) The quantity of butter made at one operation. |
churrus | noun (n.) A powerfully narcotic and intoxicating gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp. |
churrworm | noun (n.) An insect that turns about nimbly; the mole cricket; -- called also fan cricket. |
chute | noun (n.) A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel. |
noun (n.) See Shoot. |
chutney | noun (n.) Alt. of Chutnee |
chutnee | noun (n.) A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc. |
chupatty | noun (n.) A kind of griddlecake of unleavened bread, used among the natives of India. |
chuprassy | noun (n.) Alt. of Chuprassie |
chuprassie | noun (n.) A messenger or servant wearing an official badge. |
churr | noun (n.) A vibrant or whirring noise such as that made by some insects, as the cockchafer, or by some birds, as the nightjar, the partridge, etc. |
verb (v. i.) To make a churr, as a cockchafer. | |
verb (v. t.) To utter by churring. |
churr"ing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Churr |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CHUCK:
English Words which starts with 'ch' and ends with 'ck':
chameck | noun (n.) A kind of spider monkey (Ateles chameck), having the thumbs rudimentary and without a nail. |
charlock | noun (n.) A cruciferous plant (Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock. |
check | noun (n.) A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move. |
noun (n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check. | |
noun (n.) Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff. | |
noun (n.) A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad. | |
noun (n.) A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below. | |
noun (n.) A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure. | |
noun (n.) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds. | |
noun (n.) Small chick or crack. | |
adjective (a.) Checkered; designed in checks. | |
verb (v. t.) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check. | |
verb (v. t.) To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb. | |
verb (v. t.) To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage. | |
verb (v. t.) To chide, rebuke, or reprove. | |
verb (v. t.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended. | |
verb (v. t.) To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber. | |
verb (v. i.) To make a stop; to pause; -- with at. | |
verb (v. i.) To clash or interfere. | |
verb (v. i.) To act as a curb or restraint. | |
verb (v. i.) To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc. | |
verb (v. i.) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds. |
chick | noun (n.) A chicken. |
noun (n.) A child or young person; -- a term of endearment. | |
verb (v. i.) To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate. |
chock | noun (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. |
noun (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. | |
noun (n.) An encounter. | |
verb (v. t.) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask. | |
verb (v. i.) To fill up, as a cavity. | |
adverb (adv.) Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft. | |
verb (v. t.) To encounter. |
chockablock | adjective (a.) Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting. |
chopstick | noun (n.) One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth. |