chuck : Idioms & Phrases

• noun United States rock singer (born in 1931)
  Berry; Charles Edward Berry.
  

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• a play in which a farthing is pitched into a hole; pitch farthing.

Webster 1913

• a deep hole in a wagon rut.

Webster 1913

• verb throw or cast away
  dispose; cast aside; throw away; fling; toss; cast away; throw out; cast out; put away; discard; toss out; toss away.
  
  • Put away your worries
• verb put out or expel from a place
  eject; turf out; boot out; turn out; exclude.
  
  • The unruly student was excluded from the game

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• noun between the chuck and the brisket
  

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• verb give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
  quit; throw in; drop out; throw in the towel; fall by the wayside; give up; drop by the wayside.
  
  • In the second round, the challenger gave up

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• noun a wagon equipped with a cookstove and provisions (for cowboys)
  

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

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• noun large whippoorwill-like bird of the southern United States
  Caprimulgus carolinensis.
  

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Chuck`-Will's-wid"ow noun

Definitions

1. (Zool.) A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note.

Webster 1913

• noun a cone-shaped chuck used for holding cylindrical pieces in a lathe
  collet.
  

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• (Mach.), a lathe chuck so constructed that the work held by it may be altered as to its center of motion, so as to produce combinations of eccentric combinations of eccentric circles.

Webster 1913

• a chuck having a silder and an eccentric circle, which, as the work turns round, give it a sliding motion across the center which generates an ellipse.

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• (Wood Turning), a lathe center having two prongs for driving the work.

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• (Mech.), a lathe chuck so constructed that work attached to it, and cut by the turning tool in the usual manner, becomes of an oval form.

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• (Mach.), an adjustable chuck, applicable to a lathe spindle, for centering and holding work, in which the jaws are adjusted and tightened simultaneously by turning a disk having in its face a spiral groove which is entered by teeth on the backs of the jaws.

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• (Mach.), a chuck, as for a lathe, having jaws which can be moved simultaneously so as to grasp objects of various sizes.

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