Voorbeelden van chock

• 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. 

• An eight-foot tender rested on chocks atop the main cabin. 

• 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.

• This leaves the framework and chocks as the only higher rated bits.

• This is chocking off applications from oil companies which might otherwise have been interested in putting some of their capital into this exploration.

• That is one of the problem areas—because their surgeries are chock-a-block with the over-40s and over-50s, sadly, they are missing telltale signs.

• Every little turning within a quarter of a mile area of the market is chock-a-block with traffic to and from the market.

• The face and brow were supported by props and bars closely set, and the roof at the goaf edge was further supported by chocks.

• From 12.30 p.m. onwards, the restaurants are chock-a-block with visitors, and that can no longer be tolerated.

• In one depot we would find any amount of accommodation, while another was chock-a-block with vehicles.

• When you travel the country you see railway sidings chock-full of empty wagons, which stand there for days on end unmoved.

• It is necessary, because the roads are chock-a-block as people try to get through.

• When a mine ends production, a certain amount of coal must be left to support the roofs so that the chocks can be removed.