chokelewt

[ME., also chekelew, cheklew, choken, cheken, choke, + -lew, as in drunkelew, Cf. drunkelew.] Choking; strangling. Unto stelthe beware hem of hempen lane, For stelthe is medid [meeded] with a chekelew [var. choke lew, cheklew) bane. Book of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 106. chokelingt, p . a. A Middle English form of chuckling. choke-pear (chōk'par), n. 1. A kind of pear that has a rough astringent taste. Hence 21. Anything that stops the mouth; an unanswerable argument; an aspersion or a sarcasm by which a person is put to silence. He gaue him a choake - peare to stoppe his breath, replying as follow eth. Lyly , Euphues and his England, p. 321. Pardon me for going so low as to talk of giving choke pears. Richardson, Clari a Harlowe.