Vocabulary : Chock to Choice

Chock : To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask. ;; To fill up, as a cavity. ;; 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. ;; 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. ;; Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft. ;; To encounter. ;; An encounter.
Chockablock : Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.
Chocked : of Chock
Chock-full : Quite full; choke-full.
Chocking : of Chock

Chocolate : A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla. ;; The beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk.
Choctaws : A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory.
Chode : the old imp. of chide. See Chide.
Chogset : See Cunner.
Choice : Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election. ;; The power or opportunity of choosing; option. ;; Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination. ;; A sufficient number to choose among. ;; The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection. ;; The best part; that which is preferable. ;; Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. ;; Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money. ;; Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.

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