Chock or Chocks may refer to:
Devices for preventing movement
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Wheel chock
Wheel chocks (or chocks) are wedges of sturdy material placed closely against a vehicle's wheels to prevent accidental movement. Chocks are placed for safety in addition to setting the brakes. The bottom surface is sometimes coated in rubber ...
, tool to prevent accidental movement
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Chock (climbing)
In rock climbing, a nut (or ''chock'' or ''chockstone'') is a metal wedge threaded on a wire that climbers use for protection by wedging it into a crack in the rock. Quickdraws are clipped to the nut wire by the ascending climber and the rope th ...
, anchor
* Chock, component of a
sailing block
Other uses
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Chock (surname)
Chock is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Eric Chock, Hawaiian poet, scholar and editor
* Madison Chock
Madison La'akea Te-Lan Hall Chock (born July 2, 1992) is an American ice dancer. With her skating partner, Evan Bates, ...
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''Chock'' (TV series), a Swedish horror television series
* Chock, a Swedish-language edition of
Chill
In computing, CHILL (an acronym for CCITT High Level Language) is a procedural programming language designed for use in telecommunication switches (the hardware used inside telephone exchanges). The language is still used for legacy systems in ...
* Chocks, a children's multivitamin product made by
Miles Laboratories
Miles Laboratories was founded as the Dr. Miles Medical Company in Elkhart, Indiana, in 1884 by Dr. Franklin Lawrence Miles, a specialist in the treatment of eye and ear disorders, with an interest in the connection of the nervous system to ov ...
See also
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Choc (disambiguation) Choc may refer to:
* Chocolate
* ''Choc'' (magazine), a French photography magazine
* Choc (typeface), a typeface by Roger Excoffon
* Choc Bay, in Gros Islet Quarter, Saint Lucia
* Choč Mountains, in north-central Slovakia
* Choc River, in the So ...
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Chok (disambiguation)
CHOK (1070 AM) is a Canadian radio station, licensed to Sarnia, Ontario and owned by Blackburn Radio. The station broadcasts a country format with local news, talk and sports. CHOK also has an FM translator, CHOK-1-FM, broadcasting at 103.9&nb ...
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Chocky
''Chocky'' is a science fiction novel by British writer John Wyndham. It was first published as a novelette in the March 1963 issue of ''Amazing Stories'' and later developed into a novel in 1968, published by Michael Joseph. The BBC produce ...
''", short story
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Chock full o'Nuts
Chock full o'Nuts is an American brand of coffee that originated from a chain of New York City coffee shops.
Its unusual name derives from the 18 nut shops that founder William Black (c. 1902 – 1983) established under that banner in the city ...
, coffee brand
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Railway wheel stop
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