The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chuck \Chuck\ (ch[u^]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chucked; p. pr. & vb. n. Chucking.] [Imitative of the sound.]
To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.
To chuckle; to laugh. [R.]
--Marston.
Chuck \Chuck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chucked; p. pr. & vb. n. Chucking.] [F. choquer to strike. Cf. Shock, v. t.]
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To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to.
Chucked the barmaid under the chin.
--W. Irving. To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch. [Colloq.] ``Mahomet Ali will just be chucked into the Nile.''
--Lord Palmerson.(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.
Wiktionary
n. (cx engineering English) (rfdef: English) vb. (present participle of chuck English)
Wikipedia
Chucking may refer to:
- Throwing (cricket)
- Vomiting
- Chucking (workpiece on machine tools) e.g. on screw-making machines, see Screw machine#Automatic chucking_machine
Usage examples of "chucking".
Hurriedly, in reverse, he sped back to the roadside marker, and, after the dust cloud had drifted away from his vehicle, gazed perplexedly for a full sixty seconds at the insolent inscription on the cross before angrily kicking open his door and circling around the car and ferociously tugging that hallowed symbol from the ground and chucking it irreligiously into the rear of the station wagon.
Snuffy picked up a stone, chucking it aimlessly at the nearby pile of pinon.
And Bertha, throwing a fat leg across his stomach and chucking him under the chin, teased: "Somebody is thinking about you.
She found Matt sitting on a tussock a few hundred meters to the north of the house, morosely chucking stones seaward and doodling on the dune's slope with a bit of driftwood.
They're just yelling for now, but you wait, soon as they see the heathens and the Back-o'-the-Docks lot, they'll start chucking stuff.
During the harsh Ramtop winters the family kept hardy mountain tharga beasts in the yard, chucking in straw as necessary.
Pained by such a hideous colour combination, Rannaldini removed the red dahlias from the vase, chucking them on the grass to be trodden underfoot by the first arrivals.
Silently, stoically, Joe thumbed up the guts, grabbing intestines and tearing them out, chucking the glop into the water.
Amarante had stopped chucking rocks at little birds around the time he became sheriff, but in an old age that might be called a reversion to his childhood, he suddenly returned to a variation of his former pas-lime.
I suddenly remembered this time, in around October, that I and Robert Tichener and Paul Campbell were chucking a football around, in front of the academic building.
It was just before dinner and it was getting pretty dark out, but we kept chucking the ball around anyway.
I mean he was the only boy that could really handle the job," I said– boy, was I chucking it.