Chuck (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chucked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chucking.] [Imitative of the sound.]
1.
To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.
2.
To chuckle; to laugh.
[R.]
Marston.
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Chuck, v. t.
To call, as a hen her chickens.
Dryden.
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Chuck, n.
1.
The chuck or call of a hen.
2.
A sudden, small noise.
3.
A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick.
"Pray,
chuck, come hither."
Shak.
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Chuck, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chucked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chucking.] [F. choquer to strike. Cf. Shock, v. t.]
1.
To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to.
Chucked the barmaid under the chin.
W. Irving.
2.
To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch.
[Colloq.] "Mahomet Ali will just be
chucked into the Nile."
Lord Palmerson.
3. Mech.
To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
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Chuck, n.
1.
A slight blow or pat under the chin.
2.
A short throw; a toss.
3. Mach.
A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.
Chuck farthing, a play in which a farthing is pitched into a hole; pitch farthing. -- Chuck hole, a deep hole in a wagon rut. -- Elliptic chuck, a chuck having a silder and an eccentric circle, which, as the work turns round, give it a sliding motion across the center which generates an ellipse.
Knight.
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Chuck (?), n.
1.
A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone.
[Scot.]
2. pl.
A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones.
[Scot.]
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Chuck, n.
A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast.
[Colloq.]
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