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v. t. To call, as a hen her chickens. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The chuck or call of a hen. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sudden, small noise. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick. “Pray, chuck, come hither.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Chucked p. pr. & vb. n. Chucking. ] [ F. choquer to strike. Cf. Shock, v. t. ] 1. To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chucked the barmaid under the chin. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch. [ Colloq. ] “Mahomet Ali will just be chucked into the Nile.” Lord Palmerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mech.) To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A slight blow or pat under the chin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A short throw; a toss. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mach.) A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chuck farthing, a play in which a farthing is pitched into a hole; pitch farthing. --
Chuck hole, a deep hole in a wagon rut. --
Elliptic chuck, a chuck having a slider and an eccentric circle, which, as the work turns round, give it a sliding motion across the center which generates an ellipse. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a person whose duty is to throw troublemakers out of a bar or public meeting; a bouncer{ 5 }.
Syn. -- bouncer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as chock-full. [ predicate ]
Syn. -- chockablock(predicate), chock-full(predicate), chockfull(predicate), chockful(predicate), choke-full(predicate), cram full. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a pit or hole produced by wear or weathering especially in a road surface.
Syn. -- pothole. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Chuckled p. pr. & vb. n. Chuckling ] [ From 1st Chuck. ] 1. To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fondle; to cocker. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction, exultation, or derision. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ From 1st Chuck. ] To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce. [ Low ] Knowles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a large head; thickheaded; dull; stupid. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A large whippoorwill-like bird (a species of goatsucker) (Caprimulgus carolinensis, formerly Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The husk covering an ear of Indian corn. [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A deciduous much-branched shrub (Lyonia ligustrina) with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers.
Syn. -- maleberry, male berry, privet andromeda, Lyonia ligustrina. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ See Hawk to offer for sale, Huckster. ] To higgle in trading. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. orig., peddler's wares; cf. LG. hukkebak pickback. Cf. Huckster. ] A kind of linen cloth with raised figures, used for towelings. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. dim. of Prov. E. hucka hook, and so named from its round shape. See Hook. ] 1. The hip; the haunch. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bunch or part projecting like the hip. [ 1913 Webster ]

Huckle bone. (a) The hip bone; the innominate bone. (b) A small bone of the ankle; astragalus. [ R. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Round-shoulded. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Whortleberry. ] (Bot.) (a) The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from Gaylussacia resinosa. (b) The shrub that bears the berries. Called also whortleberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Squaw huckleberry. See Deeberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hukstere, hukster, OD. heukster, D. heuker; akin to D. huiken to stoop, bend, OD. huycken, huken, G. hocken, to squat, Icel. h&unr_;ka; -- the peddler being named from his stooping under the load on his back. Cf. Hawk to offer for sale. ] 1. A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mean, trickish fellow. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Huckstered p. pr. & vb. n. Huckstering. ] To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The business of a huckster; small dealing; peddling. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ignoble huckster age of piddling tithes. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A huckster. Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those hucksterers or money-jobbers. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female huckster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Same as Pachak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A shock of grain. [ Prev. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perhaps akin to G. shote a husk, pod, shell. ] 1. A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The shell of an oyster or clam. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shucked p. pr. & vb. n. Shucking. ] 1. To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To remove or take off (shucks); hence, to discard; to lay aside; -- usually with off. [ Colloq. ]

“Shucking” his coronet, after he had imbibed several draughts of fire water. F. A. Ober.

He had only been in Africa long enough to shuck off the notions he had acquired about the engineering of a west coast colony. Pall Mall Mag. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who shucks oysters or clams [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The sand martin, or bank swallow. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]