Chuck \Chuck\ (ch[u^]k), 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.
2. To chuckle; to laugh. [R.] --Marston.
Chuck \Chuck\, v. t. To call, as a hen her chickens. --Dryden.
Chuck \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.'' --Shak.
Chuck \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.
Chucked the barmaid under the chin. --W. Irving.
2. To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch. [Colloq.] ``Mahomet Ali will just be chucked into the Nile.'' --Lord Palmerson.
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 \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. --Knight.
Chuck \Chuck\ (ch[u^]k), 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 \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.]
But some hardy adventure-seekers chuck conventional, long-term investment plans now and then to stalk the wild windfall.
But it's also possible that Steffi could lose interest and chuck it all after a few more years.
'I think it is very sad after the way management and workforce at Rover worked their socks off that British Aerospace can simply chuck them overboard because they are a bit short of money.'
It's been a long, hard slog and I can assure you, having worked so hard to get this country to be a country of low inflation, I am not going to chuck it away just in a few weeks' time.
It would be interesting to know how far you would have to go in today's Louvre before anyone would take notice, let alone chuck you out.
First, Thomas consulted the dictionary for a definition of chuck, which he found to mean "to toss or discard."
Could the woodchuckchuck more than 700 pounds of lightweight pine, or less than 700 pounds of the heavier oak?