chock : Idioms & Phrases

• verb crowd or pack to capacity
  wad; ram; jampack; jam; cram.
  
  • the theater was jampacked

WordNet

• adverb as completely as possible
  chock.
  
  • it was chock-a-block full

WordNet

• adjective satellite packed full to capacity
  chuck-full; cram full; chockful; choke-full; chockablock.
  
  • chowder chockablock with pieces of fish

WordNet

Chock"-full` adjective

Definitions

1. Quite full; choke-full.

Webster 1913

Dous"ing-chock` noun

Definitions

1. (Shipbuilding) One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Webster 1913

• brakes attached to the common standing garrison carriages of guns, so as to raise the trucks or wheels off the platform when the gun begins to recoil, and prevent its running back. Earrow.

Webster 1913