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   Chuck (chŭk), 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.
   
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   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.
   
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   2. A sudden, small noise.
   
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   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.
   
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   Chucked the barmaid under the chin. W. Irving.
   
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   2. To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch. [Colloq.] “Mahomet Ali will just be chucked into the Nile.”  Lord Palmerson.
   
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   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.
   
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   2. A short throw; a toss.
   
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   3. (Mach.) A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.
   
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   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.  Knight.
   
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   Chuck (chŭk), n.
   1. A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone. [Scot.]
   
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   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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