Chock

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. 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.

2. 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.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

An encounter. [Obs.]

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To fill up, as a cavity. "The woodwork . . . exactly chocketh into joints." Fuller.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To encounter. [Obs.]

Part of speech: adverb (adv.)

Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.