A few moments to get her running smoothly, a rapid test to see that she was 'giving her revs.' and the chocks, were waved away from the wheels.
I saw the skipper watching it as the deck-hands put chocks under it and made it fast against the rolling of the ship.
That's the ethnographic scale - it's rich, beautiful and chock-full of images and texture.
Why, the warehouses were chock-full of goods and the people were walking the streets.
There is no limitation to his power at all; there is no check upon his power; there is no chock upon his discretion.
Wooden chocks and roof supports have been left on the face to rot, never to be recovered.
They hauled out all their ancient omnibuses, some of them 10 or 14 years old, and chocked the streets.
