chok

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Choked p. pr. & vb. n. Choking. ] [ OE. cheken, choken; cf. AS. āceocian to suffocate, Icel. koka to gulp, E. chincough, cough. ] 1. To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. “I was choked at this word.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun. [ 1913 Webster ]

To choke off, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick. [ 1913 Webster ]

The words choked in his throat. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Chokebored p. pr. & vb. n. Chokeboring. ] To provide with a chokebore. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. In a shotgun, a bore which is tapered to a slightly smaller diameter at a short distance (usually 21/2 to 3 inches) to the rear of the muzzle, in order to prevent the rapid dispersion of the shot. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A shotgun that is made with such a bore. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Bot.) The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Hindi chaukī-dār. ] A watchman; an officer of customs or police. [ India ] [ 1913 Webster ]