The milling machine was firmly chocked up. 那台铣床用楔子稳固地支垫着。
A report chock full of errors. 一篇错误百出的报告
Chock the barrel up or else it will roll over. 用塞块塞住圆桶,不然它会滚过去。
chock
[ noun ]
a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
<noun.artifact> [ verb ]
secure with chocks
<verb.contact>
support on chocks
<verb.contact> chock the boat [ adv ]
as completely as possible
<adv.all> it was chock-a-block full
Chock \Chock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chocked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chocking}.] To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
Chock \Chock\, v. i. To fill up, as a cavity. ``The woodwork . . . exactly chocketh into joints.'' --Fuller.
Chock \Chock\, 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. (Naut.) 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.
Chock \Chock\, v. t. [F. choquer. Cf. {Shock}, v. t.] To encounter. [Obs.]
Chock \Chock\, n. An encounter. [Obs.]
Since your book is titled, "Trump: The Art of the Deal" (246 pages, $19.95), it must be chock full of exciting descriptions of your biggest deals.
But the U.S. market, money managers warn, is chock full of pitfalls, the biggest being the dollar.
The book is chock full of anecdotes, many of them culled from a variety of American publications, in particular back issues of China Business Review; they amuse while shedding light on practical problems.
The hatchery approach is increasingly under fire, especially by fly fishermen who put a higher aesthetic value on wild trout." Until the Civil War, America's rivers and streams were chock full of wild fish.