chock and block (chokandblok)

and adv. Same as chock - a - block . chock-block (chok'blok), n. A device for pre- venting the movement of the traveling wheels in motion; a chock. chock-full, a. See choke - full . bearing or choanate, as certain infusorians. of a portable machine while the machinery is choanosomal (koa-no-so'mal), a . [ choano- some + -al.] Of or pertaining to the choano- some of a sponge; characterized by the preschockling (chok'ling), n. [E. dial. Cf. chock1 ence of choanocytes, as a subdermal part of the body of a sponge.