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Choke

Webster's Dictionary

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(1):

(v. t.) To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.

(2):

(v. t.) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.

(3):

(v. t.) To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

(4):

(v. t.) To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.

(5):

(v. t.) To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

(6):

(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.

(7):

(v. i.) To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.

(8):

(n.) A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.

(9):

(n.) The tied end of a cartridge.

(10):

(n.) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Choke'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/choke.html. 1828.
 
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