Word Meanings - QUACKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To suffocate; to choke.
Related words: (words related to QUACKLE)
- CHOKECHERRY
The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit. - SUFFOCATE
Suffocated; choked. Shak. - CHOKER
1. One who, or that which, chokes. 2. A stiff wide cravat; a stock. - CHOKEDAR
A watchman; an officer of customs or police. - CHOKEBERRY
The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub. - CHOKEBORE
1. In a shotgun, a bore which is tapered to a slightly smaller diameter at a short distance to the rear of the muzzle, in order to prevent the rapid dispersion of the shot. 2. A shotgun that is made with such a bore. - CHOKE PEAR
1. A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth. 2. A sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that can not be answered. S. Richardson. - CHOKE-FULL
Full to the brim; quite full; chock-full. - CHOKE
1. To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. Shak. 2. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block - CHOKE-STRAP
A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place. - CHOKE DAMP
See CARBONIC - ARTICHOKE
word as carciofo; cf. older spellings archiciocco, archicioffo, carciocco, and Sp. alcachofa, Pg. alcachofra; prob. fr. Ar. al- 1. The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The - CHOKY; CHOKEY
1. Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate. 2. Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion. "A deep and choky voice." Aytoun. The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey. T. Hughes. - HOGCHOKER
An American sole , related to the European sole, but of no market value.