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chock - use in sentences
Object
- wheel: It is not advised to rely on chocking the nose wheel to prevent a caravan running down a slope.
- boulder: The way on was a smallish inlet rift cascading in from behind another set of chocked boulders.
- smoke: Yes it makes lots of chocking smoke and massive spurting flames.
- block: But it was also true that every hole was chock-a-block with, well, chocked blocks.
Converse of object
- put: Putting the chock behind the mast reduces feel and promotes a lot of lower mast bend which is not always helpful.
- remove: The assembled onlookers watched as the ground crew removed the chocks and then marshaled the aircraft onto the taxiway and toward runway 08.
- have: Aircraft that require hand starting by prop swinging must have chocks placed in front of the wheels.
- use: A running belay using chocks, nuts or similar devices.
- carry: And a warning to myself to carry chocks and to use them if I'm in any doubt.
- place: Aircraft that require hand starting by prop swinging must have chocks placed in front of the wheels.
Adjective modifier
- wooden: Fix the glass in place with wooden chocks or similar.
Modifies a noun
- stone: These large ledges lead to a narrowing of the rift, where a moderate shower lands on some unstable chock stones.
- block: The two chock blocks are to drive the fans and the new relay to turn off the power when the HV trip fires.
- carriage: By the late 1880s 64 prs, were mounted on rear chock carriages rather than garrison standing carriages because of their recoil.
Modifying Another Word
- away: Band, by the left, into the plane, quick march, chocks away, good luck!
Followed by an intransitive particle
- up: The barge is now chocked up outside Ken Haines works at Normanton.
- away: No more the shout " Contact - chocks away; " How soon they forget!
Noun used with modifier
- wheel: Sometimes you will be held on the line by marshals or with a wheel chock.
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