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Chuck   /tʃək/   Listen
verb
Chuck  v. t.  To call, as a hen her chickens.


Chuck  v. t.  (past & past part. chucked; pres. part. chucking)  
1.
To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to. "Chucked the barmaid under the chin."
2.
To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch. (Colloq.) "Mahomet Ali will just be chucked into the Nile."
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.


Chuck  v. i.  (past & past part. chucked; pres. part. chucking)  
1.
To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.
2.
To chuckle; to laugh. (R.)


noun
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."


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 slider and an eccentric circle, which, as the work turns round, give it a sliding motion across the center which generates an ellipse.


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.)


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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"Chuck" Quotes from Famous Books



... the curious knickknacks, mysteries, puzzles, Indian gifts, rat-traps, and well-disguised blessings that the gods chuck down to us from the Olympian peaks, the most disquieting and evil-bringing is the snow. By scientific analysis it is absolute beauty and purity—so, at the beginning we look ...
— Waifs and Strays - Part 1 • O. Henry
... gun-mountings on one of the armored cars, and, when the section moved suddenly in the dead of night, refusing point-blank to allow any available space to be loaded up with Mary's budding garden. Mary's plaintive inquiry as to what he was to do with the boxes was met by the brutal order to "chuck the lot overboard," and the counter-inquiry as to whether he thought this show was a perambulating ...
— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)
... heaven's name. Cover it up, man, cover it up! Shove a cloth over it! Here!" and he pulled off the antimacassar from the back of a chair and wrapped the board in it. "Now get the keys from my pocket and open the safe. Chuck the other things out. Oh, Lord, it's getting itself into frightful knots! and open it quick!" He threw the thing ...
— Famous Modern Ghost Stories • Various
... "Come and chuck us in the river, why don't you?" jeered the first of the boys on shore, Peter Herring by name, and the chief bully of the school. "You daren't! You're afraid of wetting your pretty clothes. Yah! what an old tub! You'll never get back with ...
— The Hilltop Boys on the River • Cyril Burleigh
... dismay when he replied with a loud guffaw: "It's no use. If you want the good old truth, I've got the chuck!" ...
— The Diary of a Nobody • George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith


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