Plural of chock; wedges or blocks placed under wheels or cargo to prevent them from moving.
Plural of 'chock,' from Old French 'choque.' The word spread from its French origin through maritime vocabulary and entered general English.
Today, aircraft use the same wooden chocks that ship captains used centuries ago—one of the few tools in modern aviation that's virtually unchanged from maritime tradition.
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