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Discover LudwigThe word 'chock' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a noun or a verb. As a noun, 'chock' refers to a heavy block of wood or metal used to prevent a vehicle or other large object from moving. Example 1: The truck driver placed chocks behind the wheels before unloading the cargo. Example 2: The airplane was securely in place with chocks placed under its wheels. As a verb, 'chock' means to support or secure with a chock. Example 1: The mechanic chocked the plane's wheels before beginning maintenance work. Example 2: We need to chock the boat before we can safely dock it. 'Chock' can also be used in the idiomatic expression 'chock-full', meaning completely full or crowded. Example: The restaurant was chock-full of customers during lunchtime.
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chock
noun
Any wooden block used as a wedge or filler
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Homebuilt stalls, chock full of mandarins, oranges and fresh eggs selling for a pittance.
The pace bowling is chock full of talent, the trick only in keeping them fit.
Häagen-Dazs, by contrast, is made in two places in the United States, as well as in Canada, France and Japan.It is wrong to say that Ben & Jerry's social mission is just a drag on its commercial aspirations: after all, some of its customers shell out the extra cash for Rainforest Crunch precisely because it is chock full of righteously harvested nuts from tribal cooperatives in the Amazon.
It is chock full of figures, broken down by region and industry, of research spending, patents filed, scientists employed and other important-sounding variables.
But it has held on to its Senseo brand of coffee.In this section Pulp friction Punching above its weight Chock full o' brands Duet in the offing Local tastes Heartbroken?
And only this month it was discovered, by looking at the beads in an electron microscope, that they are chock full of diamonds a micron or less across.
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The Tories and Labour have swapped clothes | Polly Toynbee In a surprising act of political cross-dressing, Labour's document stressed fiscal responsibility while the Tories' was chock-full of spending commitments funded with a large dose of wishful thinking.
She wrote: "The manifesto-that-does-what-other-manifestos-don't was chock-a-block with lists of promises.
Chock-a-block with design agencies and curio shops, and hugging an ancient reservoir, tiny Hauz Khas is easy to navigate and not too crowded, except at weekends.
It will probably get little more than a footnote at the end of a chock-a-block season, but the Western Bulldogs' quiet progression should not be overlooked.
But Shoreditch still isn't chock-full of smart shops.
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