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▪ I. choking, vbl. n. (or ppl. a.)|ˈtʃəʊkɪŋ|
[f. choke v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. to choke; obstruction of the breath; blocking up of a passage, constriction of a tube; suffocation, smothering.
c1440Promp. Parv. 72 Chekenynge [1499 Pynson Chowkinge] suffocacio. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 374 [Godwin] execrated vpon himselfe a choaking. 1635J. Babington Pyrotechnia iii. 4 A great cord will not serve for a small [rocket], in regard that it will make too great a choaking. Ibid. 8 Betweene the choaking of your Rocket and the end of the vent. 1803Med. Jrnl. X. 215 Alarming sensations of suffocation or choaking. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola (1880) I. i. i. 18 The choking of the narrow inlets with mules and carts.
2. choking coil Electr., a coil of high inductance inserted in an alternating-current circuit to impede and cut down the current or to change its phase. Called also impedance or reactance coil.
1893R. M. Walmsley Wormell's Electricity in Service of Man 644 An extremely pretty device known as a ‘choking’ coil. 1902W. G. Rhodes Altern. Currents 83 Impedance coils, or choking coils, as they are often called, are simply coils having low ohmic resistance and high self-induction. 1962S. Handel Dict. Electronics 52 Choke (Choking coil), an inductor designed to present a relatively high impedance to alternating current.
▪ II. choking, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That chokes; that stops respiration; that produces a feeling of choking; also fig. choking apple = choke apple (see choke-); choking pear = choke-pear; choking pie (see quot. 1611).
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 36 To cast in my teeth, Checks and chokyng oysters. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. i. 200 A choking gall. 1611Cotgr., Chaumoufflet, Bumbast put into a cornet of paper, then kindled, and the smoke thereof put into the nosethrils of a sleeper; we call it, a choaking pie, or cold pie. 1623Favine Theat. Hon. v. i. 48 Kept a choaking Peare in store for him. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 619 Out of the choking cloud of dust. 1888Mrs. H. Ward R. Elsmere xxi, Helpless children died in choking torture [of diphtheria].
2. Smothering, strangling.
1746–7Hervey Medit. 145 Like some choaking weed.
3. Drawing together; tightly closing.
1859F. Griffiths Artil. Man. (1862) 191 The putting in of the braid and choking string.
4. Showing a tendency to choke as with emotion.
1837Disraeli Venetia ii. ii. (1871) 109 Her tone was severe and choking. 1844― Coningsby ix. iv. (L.), Said Flora, speaking in a choking voice. |