These are the meanings of the letters HOOKCHECK when you unscramble them.
- Check (a.)
Checkered; designed in checks.
- Check (n.)
A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check.
- Check (n.)
A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad.
- Check (n.)
A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move.
- Check (n.)
A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.
- Check (n.)
A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.
- Check (n.)
Small chick or crack.
- Check (n.)
The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
- Check (n.)
Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff.
- Check (v. i.)
To act as a curb or restraint.
- Check (v. i.)
To clash or interfere.
- Check (v. i.)
To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
- Check (v. i.)
To make a stop; to pause; -- with at.
- Check (v. i.)
To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
- Check (v. t.)
To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
- Check (v. t.)
To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check.
- Check (v. t.)
To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber.
- Check (v. t.)
To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.
- Check (v. t.)
To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
- Check (v. t.)
To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage.
- Chock (adv.)
Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.
- Chock (n.)
A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.
- Chock (n.)
A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.
- Chock (n.)
An encounter.
- Chock (v. i.)
To fill up, as a cavity.
- Chock (v. t.)
To encounter.
- Chock (v. t.)
To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
- Choke (n.)
A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
- Choke (n.)
A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
- Choke (n.)
The tied end of a cartridge.
- Choke (v. i.)
To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
- Choke (v. i.)
To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.
- Choke (v. t.)
To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
- Choke (v. t.)
To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
- Choke (v. t.)
To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
- Choke (v. t.)
To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
- Choke (v. t.)
To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
- chook (unknown)
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- cooch (unknown)
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- hooch (unknown)
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