Meaning

noun informal terms for a meal

noun the part of a forequarter from the neck to the ribs and including the shoulder blade

noun a holding device consisting of adjustable jaws that center a workpiece in a lathe or center a tool in a drill

originFrom earlier chock, likely imitative, but perhaps also from Middle English chokken (“to thrust, pierce, cram”), from Picard Old French chuquier (“to collide, strike”, intransitive verb), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to bump, shake”). Doublet of shock and shuck.

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