chuckn.1int.
/tʃʌk/, U.S. /tʃək/ A. n.1† 2. The (northern) wheatear, Oenanthe oenanthe. Obsolete (English regional (eastern) in later use).Cf. chack n. 3, chickell n.
1.
a. A short, distinct sound made by an animal, esp. a bird. In early use: spec. a clucking sound made by a chicken (cf. cluck n. 2).
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > sounds like animal or bird sounds > [noun] > cluck
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > hen > sound made by
cacklingc1374
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c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 354 He fley doun fro the beem..and eke hise hennes alle And with a chuk [c1415 Corpus Oxf. chukke, c1415 Lansdowne chokke] he gan hem for to calle.
1757 T. Gooday Chanticleer iii. 70 Poor Chanticleer his Rival ey'd, Fell back—and gave a Chuck, and—dy'd.
1895 P. H. Emerson Birds, Beasts, & Fishes Norfolk Broadland xvii. 48 The old birds will come to meet you, and fly around uttering a short chuck.
1957 Ecology 38 252/1 The female flew from the nest and joined the male when both gave a few soft ‘chucks’.
1993 Mammalian Species No. 436. 5/2 Gray-collared chipmunks..wave their tails from side to side as they make a low ‘chuck-chuck’.
2005 J. B. Nelson Pelicans, Cormorants, & Relatives i. v. 214/2 Tropicbirds flying past evoke a gutteral ‘chuck’.
b. A palatal clucking sound made by a person to call or encourage a bird or other animal; a call of ‘chuck’. Cf. sense B. 1 Now rare.In quot. 1692 with reference to a parrot said to have many human abilities, including being able to speak and perform human tasks.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > sounds like animal or bird sounds > [noun] > cluck
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1692 W. Temple Mem. Christendom i. 59 The parrot..made the Chuck four or five times that People use to make to Chickens when they call them.
1895 Nidiologist June 141/1 The ‘chuck’ of the plowboy to his plodding team.
1902 J. W. Lloyd Nat. Man iv. 81 Forrest laughed and gave a chuck, and Edith..jumped aside as a great bird floated down.
1989 W. E. Draycott Cowslip Years vii. 77 I edged forward..calling a quiet ‘chuck, chuck, chuck, there's a good bird’.
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a1682 Sir T. Browne Norfolk Birds in Wks. (1835) IV. 322 Avis trogloditica or chock, a small bird, mixed of black and white, and breeding in coney-burrows.
1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 78 Chacker, Chack, Chackbird, and Chuck, names for the Wheatear.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 9 From its short, quickly repeated cry, resembling a slight blow, it is called Chock, or Chuck (Norfolk).
B. int.
1. Representing a palatal clucking sound made by a person, or a call of ‘chuck’; esp. such a sound used to call a chicken or a pig. Cf. chick int.2, and see also chuck n.2 2.In quot. 1692 (taken from a passage written in response to that cited at quot. 1692 at sense A. 1b) with reference to a parrot said to have many human abilities, including being able to speak and perform human tasks.
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1692 Ludlow no Lyar 52 This Understanding Parrot..undertook no other Task than it could well perform, crying Chuck, Chuck, Chuck, to the Chickens very pertinently, which is more than you do to your Birds.
1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. xxxii. 57 Soon enough to cry chuck when it is out of the Shell.
?1750 Cirencester Contest 78 Chuck! Chuck! is the Call for a Hog.
1870 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 190 She was saying ‘chuck, chuck, chuck,’ and the great hungry creatures were pushing towards the troughs.
1916 Month Aug. 122 Joe Stevens, who'd gone clean out of 'is 'ead one mornin' an' 'is missus found 'im sayin' chuck-chuck-chuck to the pigs an' a feedin' 'em with corn.
1973 A. Wright First Persons ii. ii. 89 Gomulski shook his head as if it were a shame and went chuck chuck with his tongue.
2006 Daily Mail 17 Mar. 32/2 The hens crowd round Brigit possessively. ‘Chuck-chuck-chuck,’ they mutter at her. ‘Chuck-chuck-chuck,’ she sings back.
2. Representing a short, distinct sound made by an animal, esp. a bird. In early use: spec. representing a clucking sound made by a chicken.The context of quot. ?1805 is a satire in which certain public figures are characterized as gamecocks.
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?1805 J. Robertson Coll. Comic Songs 10 Nelson..stretch'd himself out, and cried, chuck, chuck, coo.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xiv. 172 ‘Chuck-chuck-chuck!’ overhead. A squirrel.
1916 Wilson Bull. 28 69 They flew up onto a high branch and called chuck! as all Hermit Thrushes do.
2007 L. Beletsky Bird Songs Around World vi. 340 The birds..frequently give brief calls like chup, pip, or ptek, and also longer scolding calls like chuck-chuck-chuck.
3. Representing a short, dull, distinct sound.
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1850 Southern Herald (Athens, Georgia) 19 Dec. Chuck goes the axe again.
1891 Nebraska State Jrnl. 9 Mar. 13/6 The arrows were going chuck! chuck! chuck! into the roof.
1920 C. H. Dudley Ward Hist. Welsh Guards iii. 45 Ankle deep in clay mud which went ‘chuck-chuck’ as the men pulled their feet out of it.
2015 W. C. Easley Never Look Down ii. 10 She heard more muffled shots—chuck chuck, chuck chuck chuck.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
chuckn.2
/tʃʌk/, U.S. /tʃək/, Scottish English /tʃʌk/ 1. As a term of endearment or affectionate form of address. Also formerly: †a loved one, esp. a child or spouse (obsolete). Now chiefly English regional (northern).
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the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun]
darlingc888
belamy?c1225
culver?c1225
dearc1230
sweetheartc1290
heartc1300
sweetc1330
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dovec1386
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birdc1405
cinnamonc1405
honeycombc1405
lovec1405
wantonc1450
mulling?a1475
daisyc1485
crowdy-mowdy?a1513
honeysop?a1513
powsowdie?a1513
suckler?a1513
foolc1525
buttinga1529
whitinga1529
beautiful1534
turtle-dove1535
soula1538
heartikin1540
bully?1548
turtle1548
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nyletc1557
sweet-lovea1560
coz1563
ding-ding1564
pugs1566
golpol1568
sparling1570
lover1573
pug1580
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mopsy1582
chuck1589
bonny1594
chick1594
sweetikin1596
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pinkany1599
sweetkin1599
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flittermouse1612
honeysuckle1613
fubs1614
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pretty1616
old thinga1625
bun1627
duckling1630
bulchin1633
bulch?c1640
sweetling1648
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ding-dongs1662
buntinga1668
cocky1680
dearie1681
chucky1683
lovey1684
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nykin1693
pinkaninny1696
nug1699
hinny1724
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toy1822
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amigo1830
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macushla1834
cabbage1840
honey-bunch1874
angel pie1878
m'dear1887
bach1889
honey baby1895
prawn1895
hon1896
so-and-so1897
cariad1899
pumpkin1900
honey-bun1902
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snookums1919
treasure1920
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amico1929
sugar1930
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angel cake1951
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1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxvi. 115 No like immortall she-Egge Chucke of Tyndarus his Wife, The Wracke of Dardane Walls, Shall mooue to us like costlie strife.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 654 Sweete chucks beat not the bones of the buried. View more context for this quotation
1607 W. N. Barley-breake sig. A4v I tell thee, Chucke, thy Father doth disdaine, To see his child so ruffled by a knaue.
1629 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. (ed. 5) xxxvi. sig. G11 One that do's nothing without his chuck, that is, his wife.
1735 J. Miller Man of Taste 55 Dear chuck, don't be so much concern'd.
1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights II. xx. 408 Will you come, chuck?
1939 A. Uttley Traveller in Time (1952) xii. 283 I'll sit by you, my chuck, while you go to sleep.
2014 @martinexty 28 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Happy birthday my little chuck.
2. Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern). A chicken. Cf. chook n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > genus Gallus (domestic fowl) > [noun] > member of (fowl)
chickenOE
chicka1398
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jungle-fowl1824
chook1888
gump1914
1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 134 A [R]at, a [P]ismire, or a Butterflie, A Cornish Chucke, a Parrat, or a Pie, A nimble Squirrel or a picke-a tree, A Wesell, Vrchin, or a Bumble Bee.
1807 R. Tannahill Soldier's Return 47 In short, the twa soon grew sae pack, Chuck roosted upon pussie's back!
1875 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. I 76 Thoose chucks are i'th garden again.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Chuck or chuckie, a domestic fowl. A word used by children.
1998 uk.media.radio.archers 23 Jan. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 28 May 2019) It wasn't because they fed the chucks on fish meal, but because the corpses had been allowed to go rancid.
2016 Derby Tel. (Nexis) 7 Jan. In a flash, I had a vision of me with a chicken on my back going viral. Hugely disturbed by this thought, I shuffled, still bent double, towards the kitchen door, desperately urging my chuck, Ruby, to jump off my back.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
chuckn.3
/tʃʌk/, U.S. /tʃək/ 1. A slight, sudden blow or upward tap under the chin.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking on specific part of the body > [noun] > on the head > slight blow under the chin
chuck1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mantonniere, a chocke, or bob vnder the chinne.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Haulse-bec..a blow, or chocke vnder the chinne.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. xlix. 97 He..gave his antagonist a chuck under the chin.
1841 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg iv, in New Monthly Mag. 61 262 There's a double chuck at a double chin.
1847 J. S. Le Fanu T. O'Brien 275 A few additional chucks by the throat.
2. A short, abrupt movement, a toss, a jerk.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [noun] > jerking > a jerk
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kick1835
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c1843 Sir C. Napier in Life (1885) vi. 206 I held half my reins..designing to give Red Rover a chuck that should put his head between me and the coming blow.
1861 A. Trollope Framley Parsonage III. ix. 165 Griselda gave her head a little chuck which was produced by two different operations of her mind.
3.
a. A toss or throw from the hand (colloquial). spec. in Cricket, a thrown ball; an illegal delivery.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > illegal delivery
no-ball1830
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chuck1862
1862 Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket Scores & Biogr. Cricketers II. 30 Slow underhand ‘chucks’.
1903 P. G. Wodehouse Tales of St. Austin's 22 Did you think that ball that bowled you was a chuck?
1966 New Statesman 1 July 26/3 One of Griffith's most effective deliveries was a (doubtless unconscious) ‘chuck’ which has now been umpired out of his repertoire.
b. Dismissal, repudiation, ‘turning down’, esp. in to give (someone or something) the chuck. Similarly chuck-over (cf. chuck v.2 2b). slang.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > send away or dismiss > unceremoniously
to send packingc1450
trussa1500
to go (send, etc.) away with a flea in one's ear1577
to set packing1577
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to send away with a fly in one's ear1606
to give a packing penny to1609
to pack off1693
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
to send about one's business1728
trundle1794
to send to the right about (also rightabouts)1816
bundle1823
to give the bucket to1863
shake1872
to give (a person) the finger1874
to give (a person) the pushc1886
to give (someone or something) the chuck1888
to give (someone) the gate1918
to get the (big) bird1924
to tie a can to (or on)1926
to give (a person) (his or her) running shoes1938
to give (someone) the Lonsdale1958
1888 G. Grossmith & W. Grossmith Diary of Nobody in Punch 25 Aug. 88/1 If you want the good old truth, I've got the chuck!
1893 Fun 28 June 262/1 The sentimental coster who is going to shoot himself because he has (as he expresses it) ‘got the chuck’ from his situation and is parted from his ‘dona’.
1909 J. Galsworthy Strife ii. ii If you give up..to Harness, now, it's givin' us the chuck—to save your skins.
1926 Punch 26 May 559/2 I give your pills the chuck..And I am worse instead of better.
1928 A. Christie Myst. of Blue Train xviii. 147 I have, how do you say it?—given them the chuck!
1930 Argosy Apr. 15/1 When they gave me the chuck, you married me out of hand.
4. Short for chuck-farthing n., and apparently extended to other games of the nature of pitch-and-toss.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > pitch and toss, etc. > [noun]
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pitch-and-chuck1688
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chuck-hole1837
chuck-halfpenny1838
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1711 Brit. Apollo 12–15 Jan. These two being at the Game we call Chuck.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 509. ⁋2 To chace the lads from chuck, that the beadle might seize their copper.
1741–3 J. Wesley Jrnl. (1749) 95 Men, women and children met together, to dance, fight, curse and swear, and play at chuck, ball, span-farthing, or whatever came next to hand.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 142 What is money good for? You cannot eat it..it is of none other use than to play at chuck, or spin upon a table to please a child.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 174 With chuck and marbles wearing Sunday through.
5. Scottish. One of the small rounded quartz pebbles used in the game of check-stone or ‘chuckie-stanes’; hence chucks a name of this game; ‘a marble used at the game of taw, Dumfr.’ (Jamieson). Also chuckstone.
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1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. v. 129 When a wise man is with fules and bairns, he maun e'en play at the chucks.
1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. L. Tieck in German Romance II. 115 Gravel, among which were..large bits of chuckstone, and other pebbles.
1879 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) Chuckie-stanes, chucks, a game played by girls. A number of pebbles are spread on a flat stone; one of them is tossed up, and a certain number must be gathered, and the falling one caught by the same hand.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
chuckn.4
/tʃʌk/, U.S. /tʃək/ 1. A lump; a large awkward-shaped piece of wood for burning, a chock n.1; also of bread, meat, and the like, a chunk n.1 Chiefly dialect.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > large or thick piece
luncheon1580
lunch1591
chuck1674
chunk1691
junt1718
daud1721
junk1726
hunch1790
hunk1809
dunt1813
knoll1829
nugget1853
slug1867
1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 61 Chuck, a great Chip, Suss.; in other Countreys they call it a chunk.
c1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876) Chuck..We mean more than a chip, viz. a short thick clubbed piece of wood, for burning.
1876 G. L. Gower Surrey Provincialisms (English Dialect Society no.12. Series C: Original glossaries) Chucks, large chips of wood. Called ‘chats’ in the Cotswold dialect.
1881 R. Buchanan God & Man I. 20 Chucks of home-made cake.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Chuck, a chip; a chunk; a short, thick clubbed piece of wood; a good thick piece of bread and cheese.
2. See quot. 1881.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > other cuts or parts
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ox foota1398
oxtaila1425
neat's foot?c1450
beef-flick1462
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aitch-bone1486
fore-crop?1523
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clod1601
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griskin1699
sey1719
chuck1723
shin1736
gravy beef1747
baron of beef1755
prime rib1759
rump and dozen1778
mouse buttock1818
slifta1825
nine holes1825
spauld-piece1828
trembling-piece1833
shoulder-lyar1844
butt1845
plate1854
plate-rand1854
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wing rib1883
roll1884
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hind1892
topside1896
rib-eye1926
buttock meat1966
onglet1982
1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. E7 To souce Beef. Take either Buttock, Chuck or Brisket of Beef.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xxi. 160 A Bullock..the Fore Quarter..the Chuck-piece,..and Middle Rib, which is called the Chuck-rib.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xxi. 160 The Hind-Quarter..the Chuck-bone, Buttock and Leg.
1798 Ann. Agric. 30 314 Blade-bones chuck.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 171 In the fore quarter, the fore rib, middle rib, and chuck-rib, are all roasting pieces [of beef].
1881 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Suppl. Chuck, a cut of beef extending from the horns to the ribs, including the shoulder-piece.
1884 Harper's Mag. July 299/1 ‘Extra mess’ is composed of chucks, plates, rumps, and flanks.
1886 Illustr. London News 9 Oct. 370/3 Chuck-steak, In the Midland Counties, three ribs of beef nearest to the neck, cut straight down the fore-quarter to about half way through the shoulder blade.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. (Mag.) 22/2 Chuck beef roast with macaroni.
3. A boat-chock; = chock n.1 5b.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > supporting blocks > chock
trig1647
chock1769
chuck1789
1789 G. Vassa Life (1792) 260 Two boats were washed from the booms, and the long-boat from the chucks.
4. A contrivance for holding work in a lathe, screwing machine, or drilling machine, while being operated upon: an instrument screwed into the nose of the mandrel of a lathe by which the work is held, while being turned; formerly chock n.1 magnetic chuck, a chuck operating by magnetism.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > lathe > [noun] > part holding work
mandrel1664
chock1665
pike1680
centre plate1717
carrier1733
chuck1806
screw chuck1827
grip-knob1833
faceplate1837
surface chuck1842
jaw-chuck1874
turning-carrier1877
screw worm chuck1881
steady1885
roller steady1911
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xi. 200 Sockets, or Chocks, belonging to the Screw-Mandrel.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 150 Chocks, cylindrical pieces of wood or iron, screw-cut at one end, to screw into the end of a mandrel.
1806 O. G. Gregory Treat. Mech. II. 472 On the end of the spindle..is screwed occasionally an universal Chuck for holding any kind of work which is to be turned.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 60 The work..is fastened to a wooden chuck by cement, or by glue, or screwed into it.
1879 J. J. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. IV. 185 Lathe chucks may..be divided into two principal groups.
1879 J. J. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. IV. 196 Motion is transmitted by the contact of an arm or pin, the driver, on the chuck.
1909 in Cent. Dict. Suppl.
1922 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics II. 323/1 Recently, magnetic chucks have come much into use in connection with shaping machines, lathes and other workshop machines.
1958 Van Nostrand's Sci. Encycl. (ed. 3) 344/2 Magnetic chucks of both the electrically-actuated and the permanent-magnet type may also be employed on the lathe.
Derivatives
chuck lathe n.
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1888 Eng. Mech. XLVII. 341 A great quantity of articles are made in the chuck lathe by a scraping process.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
chuckn.5
/tʃʌk/, U.S. /tʃək/ slang or dialect.attributive.1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy xviii. 280 He was riding the chuckline all right.1905 A. Adams Outlet 16 A carpenter then at work building chuck-boxes for each of the six commissaries.1926 J. Black You can't Win iv. 39 New arrivals, who had not yet acquired the ‘chuck horrors’, that awful animal craving for food that comes after missing half a dozen meals.1970 Sunday Republican (Springfield, Mass.) 26 Apr. 51/1 Under canvas.., only so much can be crammed into chuck box or cabinet.
1. Food, ‘grub’. (In early use spec. bread or ship-biscuit.) See also chuck wag(g)on n.
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the world > food and drink > food > [noun]
meateOE
eatOE
foodOE
fodderOE
dietc1230
gista1290
victual1303
victualsa1375
preya1382
feedinga1398
pasturea1398
viancea1400
viandsc1400
livingc1405
meatingc1425
vitalyc1440
vianda1450
cates1461
vivers1536
viandry1542
viander1543
gut-matter1549
peck1567
belly-cheer1579
appast1580
manchet1583
chat1584
belly-metal1590
repasture1598
cibaries1599
belly-timber1607
belly-cheat1608
peckage1610
victuallage1622
keeping1644
vivresa1650
crib1652
prog1655
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beef1661
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teething1673
eatablea1687
sunket1686
yam1788
chow-chow1795
keep1801
feed1818
grubbing1819
patter1824
ninyam1826
nyam1828
grubbery1831
tack1834
kai1845
mungaree1846
scoff1846
foodstuff1847
chuck1850
muckamuck1852
tuck1857
tucker1858
hash1865
nosh1873
jock1879
cake flour1881
chow1886
nosebag1888
stodge1890
food aid1900
tackle1900
munga1907
scarf1932
grubber1959
1850 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 6 Oct. (Farmer) The prisoner, upon coming to his cottage door had tried hard to get some chuck out of him, but had failed.
1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) Chuck, food, provision for an entertainment.—Norwich.
1864 Standard 13 Dec. (Farmer) Of naval slang Mr. Hotten has missed the words Chuck, used by sailors for biscuit, and Barge, the box or cask in which the chuck is kept by the messes on the lower deck.
1877 W. H. Thomson Five Years' Penal Servitude i. 4 Two large slices of bread,..the allowance given out to some prisoner who..had forgotten to eat what in prison slang is called his ‘toke’ or ‘chuck’.
1926 J. Black You can't Win vi. 67 It's you kind of cats that make it tough on us, buying chuck.
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid iv. 40 A girl who was eating her chuck like a navvy.
2. The act of taking food; a meal, meal-time.
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1865 Harper's Mag. Feb. 325/1 [I] finished chuck on twelve o'clock.
1901 M. E. Ryan That Girl Montana i. 25 After ‘chuck’ we'll go over and give you a nearer view of the tribe on the other shore.
1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) i. vi. 112 When the last man had returned from chuck, Homer made the dispositions for the cut.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
chuckn.6
/tʃʌk/, U.S. /tʃək/, Canadian English /tʃʌk/ Canadian.
A large body of water.
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1880 G. M. Dawson Rep. Queen Charlotte Islands 30 The most considerable is that which has been called the Slate Chuck on the chart.
1958 Beaver Winter 26/2 A mother in Stanley Park scolds, ‘Johnny, throw that dirty stick in the chuck.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
chuckv.1
/tʃʌk/, U.S. /tʃək/ 1. † b. transitive. Of a chicken: to call (a group of chicks or chickens) by making a clucking sound. Obsolete.
a. intransitive. Of a bird (esp. a chicken) or another animal: to make a short, distinct sound; to chirp or cheep; to cluck.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound (of hen)
clockOE
cacklec1230
chuckc1405
keckle1513
cluck1580
chuckle1690
clack1712
clucker1904
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 362 He..chukketh whan he hath a corn yfounde And to hym rennen thanne hise wyues alle.
1609 Bp. W. Barlow Eagle & Body sig. D3 Others..chucking and crying ouer the prey which they haue found dead.
1863 N. Macleod in Good Words 150 Waddling about and chucking among her numerous family of poultry.
1969 M. Ellis Wild Goose, Brother Goose 37 Mallard ducks chucked softly, and the pigeons ruffled on their roosts.
1997 T. Brookes Signs of Life vii. 167 A squirrel chucked in a nearby tree.
2005 B. Keating & S. Keating Blood Sisters (2006) ii. 14 A clutch of scrawny chickens chucking and scratching in the dry, packed-earth clearing.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [verb (transitive)] > make sound (of cock)
crow1393
chuck1700
chanticleer1810
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in Fables 239 Then crowing clap'd his Wings..To chuck his Wives together in the Hall.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pheasant-taking Which Calls are mach the same as Hens use in chucking their Chickens.
1892 Sunday Inter Ocean (Chicago) 13 Mar. 21/2 A broodin' hen once chuck her chicks back to the nest.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > chuckle
keckle1513
chuck1598
shuckle1598
cackle1712
chuckle1803
chortle1871
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Gongolare, to laugh at the hart till it be sore, or shoulders ake, to chuck.
1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 31 Who would not chuck to see such pleasing sport.
1662 G. Torriano 2nd Alphabet Proverbial Phrases 21/1 To skip, or chuck for joy.
3. intransitive. Of a person: to make a palatal clucking sound. Cf. chuck int. 1.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > incite a horse by shouting or making a noise
to stand up1656
chuck1824
to call on ——1832
to hold up1860
1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance III. xx. 200 He chucked and made a gesture as though he were driving.
1906 L. Maude & A. Maude tr. Tolstoy Twenty-three Tales vii. 126 He chucked and chucked, but having no teeth he could not do it well and the baby continued to cry.
2001 H. McLeave Moment of Truth 219 The driver chucked at his horse and drove the fifty steps to the hotel entrance.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
chuckv.2
/tʃʌk/, U.S. /tʃək/ 1. ‘To give a gentle blow under the chin, so as to make the mouth strike together’ (Johnson); to give ‘a bob under the chin’ (Cotgrave).
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the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > caress [verb (transitive)] > give a gentle blow under the chin
chuck1583
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking on specific part of the body > strike on specific part of body [verb (transitive)] > on the head > slightly under the chin
chuck1583
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie lxxxvi. 532 They were stil chockt vnder the chinne [Fr. on leur leuoit le menton].
1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. E 3v She would vse oft his company, kisse him, coll him, check him, chuck him.
?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome i. lii. 200 You chocke them vnder the chin [Fr. vous les bafoüés].
1692 T. Wagstaffe Vindic. King Charles xii. 84 A prudent Father, who seldom chucks one Child more than another.
1752 H. Fielding Amelia III. ix. ii. 223 The Doctor smiled on the Child..chucking him under the Chin.
1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet II. iii. 47 You and I..do not want to chuck farmers' daughters under the chin.
2.
a. To throw with the hand with little action of the arm; to throw underhand; to toss; probably at first said of throwing or tossing money, or anything light; later used somewhat playfully or contemptuously of heavy things, as suggesting that they are thrown with ease or contempt; by workmen substituted for throw in all senses; spec. in Cricket, to bowl illegally, with the action of a chucker n. 4; also intransitive. Cf. chuck n.3 3.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > with underhand movement
chuck1593
haunch1788
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > bowl [verb (intransitive)] > bowl illegally
chuck1903
1593 Prodigal Son iv. 112 Yes, this old one will I give you (Chucks him old hose and doublet).
1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 63 In the Tauerne, in his Cups doth rore, Chocking his Crownes.
1798 J. Jefferson MS. Let. 19 Mar. to Rev. J. Boucher To chuck a stone, etc. = to throw.
1801 M. Edgeworth Knapsack in Moral Tales II. 155 I have seen him chuck his money..at those poor children.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 13 They'll cut our throats..chuck us into the sea.
1843 Sheffield Independent 23 Sept. 7/2 Instead of throwing his ball..with some degree of force, he commenced ‘chucking’ them gently.
1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia III. ii. xix. 138 He chucked the rein to the ostler.
a1861 E. B. Browning Died in Last Poems (1862) 70 We chuck our flattery or abuse..I' the teeth of some dead sage or fool.
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies ii. 45 It seemed as if he could have chucked a pebble on to the back of the woman in the red petticoat.
1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary iii. i. 104 England now Is but a ball chuck'd between France and Spain.
1903 P. G. Wodehouse Tales of St. Austin's 21 ‘No ball,’ he shouted..‘it seemed to me that you chucked that time.’
b. In colloquial use with adverbs away, down, over, up, etc. chuck up (the sponge), said of a second in a prize-fight; hence, to give in, give up, yield: see sponge n.1 1c; also to chuck up: to abandon, dismiss; to throw over, jilt; to chuck in the towel: see towel n. 1b. ( chuck it is also said for chuck it up.) to chuck out: to eject, discharge, get rid of, throw out (from a public meeting, a theatre, a position or post, etc.); cf. chucker-out n. at chucker n. 3.
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the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > reject > as useless or unneeded
to throw awaya1398
to have no use for1596
chuck1821
fling1847
scrap1902
scratch1923
pitch1968
toss1976
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] > give way or give in
benda1400
sink?a1513
to give over1530
to cry creak?1562
yield1576
to hold up1596
succumb1604
to give in1616
to hoist, lower, strike the topsaila1629
to cry cravena1634
to give up or cross the cudgels1654
incumb1656
to fall in1667
to knock under1670
to knock under board, under (the) table1692
to strike underc1730
knuckle down1735
to throw (also chuck) up the sponge1860
chuck up (the sponge)1864
to throw in one's hand1893
to sky the wipe (or towel)1907
to drop one's bundle1915
to throw (chuck, or toss) in the towel1915
to buckle up1927
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel > specific people from a place, position, or possession > forcibly or ignominiously
eject1555
rumble1570
obtrude1595
to show (a person) the door1638
to kick downstairs1678
to kick out1697
drum1720
firk1823
to chuck out1869
bounce1877
boot1880
out-kick1883
turf1888
hoof1893
hound1922
the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)]
forsakec893
forlet971
to reach upOE
agiveOE
yield?c1225
uptake1297
up-yield1297
yield1297
deliverc1300
to-yielda1375
overgivec1384
grant1390
forbeara1400
livera1400
forgoc1400
upgive1415
permit1429
quit1429
renderc1436
relinquish1479
abandonc1485
to hold up?1499
enlibertyc1500
surrender1509
cess1523
relent1528
to cast up?1529
resignate1531
uprender1551
demit1563
disclaim1567
to fling up1587
to give up1589
quittance1592
vail1593
enfeoff1598
revoke1599
to give off1613
disownc1620
succumb1632
abdicate1633
delinquish1645
discount1648
to pass away1650
to turn off1667
choke1747
to jack up1870
chuck up (the sponge)1878
chuckc1879
unget1893
sling1902
to jack in1948
punt1966
to-leave-
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose or intention [verb (transitive)] > desert or deny a person
forsakea1300
refusec1350
nitec1390
swerve1390
relinquish1472
relinque1483
renounce1582
to fling off1587
derelicta1631
relapse1633
plant1743
to throw over1835
chuck up (the sponge)1878
ditch1899
ruck1903
to run out on1912
to walk out1921
squib1938
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 25 Up he'd chuck sacks as one would hurl a stone.
1841 F. A. Kemble Let. 29 July in Rec. Later Life (1882) II. 110 My horse..tore off with me..there was a fair chance of my being chucked off.
1850 J. H. Newman Lect. Diffic. Anglicans ii. §9 Though the minister baptized without water, though he chucked away the consecrated wine.
1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 118 Chuck up, to surrender, give in—from the custom of throwing up the sponge at a prize fight in token of yielding.
1866 J. H. Newman Dream of Gerontius iv Chuck'd down by the sheer might of a despot's will.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. vi. 66 No boy or young man on our farm durst ever get into a saddle, because they all knew that the master would chuck them out pretty quickly.
1873 Slang Dict. Chuck in, to challenge—from the pugilistic custom of throwing a hat into the ring. Obs. Chuck up, to surrender, give in, from the custom of throwing up the sponge at a prize-fight in token of yielding.
1878 Chambers's Jrnl. 333/2 A stalwart navvy,..after crossing the Danube several times at Alexandra Park, declared he must ‘chuck it up’ if he could not be a Turk.
1881 J. Grant Cameronians I. vii. 100 Cut in for the girl, if you are determined to chuck yourself away.
1883 M. E. Braddon Phantom Fortune xxv Look how easily she chucked you up because she did not think you good enough.
1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (E.D.S.) Chuck over, to discard, to disinherit.
1885 Daily News 27 Nov. 2 The town artisan is ready enough to chuck out an obstructor.
1888 St. Paul & Minneapolis Pioneer Press 22 July That duffer chocked up after going six furlongs.
1889 Times 4 Nov. 3/6 Some of them have got chucked out, your Worship, excuse the language.
1891 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray v. 102 I have a great mind to chuck the whole thing up.
1893 National Observer 23 Sept. 483/1 That is a reason for living hopefully, not for ‘chucking it up’ in despair.
1917 A. Huxley Let. 8 Apr. (1969) 123 I am going to lie and chuck it up for a much better thing.
1926 R. Kipling in McCall's Mag. June 78/2 A young voice called from a desk. ‘Chuck it over!’
1936 J. Tickell See how they Run xxiii. 318 Damn politics. Listen, I'll chuck it up and we'll go and live in Kerry.
1944 W. H. Auden For Time Being (1945) 58 Our reasons are silenced..Our wills chuck in their hands.
1958 Engineering 4 Apr. 424/1 Chuck out the conventional concepts.
1963 Times 21 Feb. 3/4 I do not like chucking money away.
c. colloquial. Without adverb, = to chuck out at sense 2b or up. In passive, to be acquitted or released. Also, to chuck it (see sense 2b).
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)]
aswikec975
linOE
beleavec1175
forletc1175
i-swikec1175
restc1175
stutte?c1225
lina1300
blinc1314
to give overc1325
to do wayc1350
stintc1366
finisha1375
leavea1375
yleavec1380
to leave offa1382
refuse1389
ceasec1410
resigna1413
respite?a1439
relinquish1454
surcease1464
discontinue1474
unfill1486
supersede1499
desist1509
to have ado?1515
stop1525
to lay aside1530
stay1538
quata1614
to lay away1628
sist1635
quita1642
to throw up1645
to lay by1709
to come off1715
unbuckle1736
peter1753
to knock off1767
stash1794
estop1796
stow1806
cheese1811
to chuck itc1879
douse1887
nark1889
to stop off1891
stay1894
sling1902
can1906
to lay off1908
to pack in1934
to pack up1934
to turn in1938
to break down1941
to tie a can to (or on)1942
to jack in1948
to wrap it up1949
the mind > possession > relinquishing > make relinquishment [verb (intransitive)]
to take leavelOE
resign1602
to jack up1870
chuckc1879
the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)]
forsakec893
forlet971
to reach upOE
agiveOE
yield?c1225
uptake1297
up-yield1297
yield1297
deliverc1300
to-yielda1375
overgivec1384
grant1390
forbeara1400
livera1400
forgoc1400
upgive1415
permit1429
quit1429
renderc1436
relinquish1479
abandonc1485
to hold up?1499
enlibertyc1500
surrender1509
cess1523
relent1528
to cast up?1529
resignate1531
uprender1551
demit1563
disclaim1567
to fling up1587
to give up1589
quittance1592
vail1593
enfeoff1598
revoke1599
to give off1613
disownc1620
succumb1632
abdicate1633
delinquish1645
discount1648
to pass away1650
to turn off1667
choke1747
to jack up1870
chuck up (the sponge)1878
chuckc1879
unget1893
sling1902
to jack in1948
punt1966
to-leave-
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > leave off! or stop it!
to do waya1325
stay1601
go and eat coke1669
to leave off1785
whoa1838
drop it!1843
cut1859
turn it up1867
to come off ——1896
to chuck it1901
knock it off!1902
cut it out1903
nix1903
break it down1941
to shove it1941
leave it out!1969
c1879 in J. S. Farmer Slang (1891) II. 108 Whatever may happen I get all the blame, Wherever I go, it is always the same—Jolly well chucked again!
1883 H. Smart Hard Lines xxvi If you mean business, take my advice and chuck that corps.
1887 J. W. Horsley Jottings from Jail 24 Kit, from 7 dials..expects to get fulled or else chucked.
1888 H. R. Haggard Col. Quaritch vi. 95 He means to git the place at his own price or chuck it.
1890 Daily News 5 Dec. 7/1 ‘He's sure to get chucked’—a slang expression for discharged.
1891 W. A. Raleigh Let. 17 Sept. (1926) I. 162 We could always chuck it and work our day round again.
1901 Punch 31 July 88/2 Oh, chuck it! I never was any good at arithmetic!
1905 R. Broughton Waif's Progress xxiii. 260 You promised to marry me... You cannot, and shall not chuck me.
1908 E. W. Walters Nipper ii ‘Chuck it!’ snapped the ill-nourished boy.
1913 J. Stephens Here are Ladies ii. 102 One day he chucked his job.
1915 G. K. Chesterton Antichrist in Poems 89 But the souls of Christian peoples... Chuck it, Smith!
1922 Notes & Queries XI. 206/2 If at some stage in a race a horse is seen to ‘shut up’, and refuse to gallop his best, it is said to ‘chuck it’.
1922 D. H. Lawrence England my England 271 Serve you right if she chucks you now.
1929 D. G. Mackail How Amusing! 525 He..concluded by asking her to chuck it all and marry him.
1932 P. G. Wodehouse Hot Water xiv. 238 I've a dashed good mind to chuck the whole thing.
1933 F. Stark Let. 18 Feb. in Beyond Euphrates (1951) 301 This is my last on official paper, as I chuck this job on Friday week.
1934 E. Waugh Handful of Dust iii. 121 You couldn't possibly chuck lunch or one of the lectures?
1954 T. S. Eliot Confidential Clerk ii. 65 He's the sort of fellow who might chuck it all And go to live on a desert island.
d. chuck-and-chance-it: a derisive phrase used attributively to describe wet-fly fishing.
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1886 Longman's Mag. June 221 So let us return to the good Northern plan of ‘chuck and chance it’, wet. The use of the dry fly is a Utopian dream.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 12 May 3/2 A large proportion of anglers..regard with un~merited contempt that which they are pleased to miscall the ‘Chuck-and-chance-it system’.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 29 Nov. 3/1 Agreeing to scoff at every wet-fly angler as a mere chuck-and-chance-it angler.
e. [perhaps rather chuck v.1] to chuck off, to chaff, speak sarcastically, sneer at. Used absol. Australian and New Zealand slang.
ΚΠ
1915 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (1916) 119 Chuck off, to chaff; to employ sarcasm.
1915 E. G. Pilling Diary 21 Jan. in Anzac Memory (1933) 119 Everyone is eating my lollies. They chuck off when a parcel of lollies arrives, but none are lacking on the eating stakes.
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 18 Chuck off at, to sneer at, chaff.
Π
1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy ii. i Something will make your heart chuck within you.
4. intransitive. To play chuck-farthing.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > pitch and toss, etc. > play pitch and toss, etc. [verb (intransitive)]
chuck1733
to fly the mags1819
1733 A. Pope Impertinent 11 Shortly no Lad shall chuck, or Lady vole, But some excising Courtier will have Toll.
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Chock, to play at pitching money into a hole.
Compounds
In combination with a noun, forming names of games, as chuck-farthing n.; also
chuck-board n. (see quot.).
Π
1880 R. Jefferies Round about Great Estate 67 In the ‘tap’ of an evening you might see the labourers playing at ‘chuck-board’, which consists in casting a small square piece of lead on to certain marked divisions of a shallow tray-like box.
chuck-button n. pitch and toss played with buttons.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > pitch and toss, etc. > [noun]
vanning1606
pitch-and-chuck1688
pitch-and-hustle1688
chuck-farthing1699
hustle-cap1709
chuck1711
pitch-and-toss1721
pitch-farthing1737
pitch1745
chock1819
pinch1828
pitch-penny1830
chuck-hole1837
chuck-halfpenny1838
toss-halfpenny1848
three-up1851
chuck-button1863
toss-penny1874
toss and catch1904
1863 Teacher's Monthly Mag. Nov. 352 When he discovered children playing at chuck-button he knew that their next step would be toss-penny.
chuck-halfpenny n. = chuck-farthing n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > pitch and toss, etc. > [noun]
vanning1606
pitch-and-chuck1688
pitch-and-hustle1688
chuck-farthing1699
hustle-cap1709
chuck1711
pitch-and-toss1721
pitch-farthing1737
pitch1745
chock1819
pinch1828
pitch-penny1830
chuck-hole1837
chuck-halfpenny1838
toss-halfpenny1848
three-up1851
chuck-button1863
toss-penny1874
toss and catch1904
1838 W. Hone Strutt's Sports & Pastimes (new ed.) iv. iv. 379 Even or odd—Chuck-halfpenny—Duck and Drake.
chuck-hole n. (a) = chuck-farthing n.; (b) ‘a deep hole in a waggon-rut’ (Webster); = chock-hole n. (a) at chock n.2 and adv.2 Compounds.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > pitch and toss, etc. > [noun]
vanning1606
pitch-and-chuck1688
pitch-and-hustle1688
chuck-farthing1699
hustle-cap1709
chuck1711
pitch-and-toss1721
pitch-farthing1737
pitch1745
chock1819
pinch1828
pitch-penny1830
chuck-hole1837
chuck-halfpenny1838
toss-halfpenny1848
three-up1851
chuck-button1863
toss-penny1874
toss and catch1904
1837 Boston (Lincs.) Herald 21 Feb. 3/5 ‘What money?’..‘Why, that what I won o' ya' at Chuck-hole!’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
chuckv.3
/tʃʌk/, U.S. /tʃək/ Turning.
To fix on the lathe by means of a chuck.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > lathe
chuck1869
swing1927
1869 Eng. Mech. 17 Dec. 334/2 The wood requires to be chucked..for boring.
1881 Metal World No. 8. 121 Chucking work on the lathe.
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chuckadv.
= chock adv.1; with direct impact.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [adverb] > as close or tight as possible
chuck1751
chock1768
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. xxi. 160 Of course he must be embayed, and run chuck upon a lee-shore.
1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley lxviii. 335 Running the machine chuck against a wall.
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adv.1751- shove-groat shilling
- shove-groat table
- shove-ha'penny
- shove-halfpenny
- shove-net
- shove-pike
- shove-up
- shove-up socket
- shoveboard
- shoved
- shovegroat
- shovegroat shilling
- shovegroat table
- shovegroating
- shovehalfpenny
- shovel
- shovel and broom
- shovel dog-fish
- shovel dogfish
- shovel down
- shovel hat
- shovel head
- shovel hilt
- shovel iron
- shovel out