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CHUCK, v.i. To make the noise of a hen or partridge, when she calls her chickens.

CHUCK, v.t. To call, as a hen her chickens.

CHUCK, v.i. To jeer; to laugh. [See Chuckle.]

CHUCK, v.t.

1. To strike, or give a gentle blow; as, to chuck one under the chin.

2. To throw, with quick motion, a short distance; to pitch.

CHUCK, n.

1. The voice or call of a hen.

2. A sudden small noise.

3. A word of endearment, corrupted from chick, chicken.
1913 Definition
Chuck (chuck)
v. i.(ch1913 webster dictionaryk)
Chuck
[imp. *** p. p. Chucked (ch&ubreve]kt); 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.
  3. To call, as a hen her chickens.
    Dryden.
  4. The chuck or call of a hen.
  5. A sudden, small noise.
  6. A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick.
    "Pray, chuck, come hither." Shak.
  7. To strike gently] to give a gentle blow to.

    Chucked the barmaid under the chin.
    W. Irving.

  8. To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch.
    [Colloq.] "Mahomet Ali will just be chucked into the Nile." Lord Palmerson.
  9. 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.
  10. A slight blow or pat under the chin.
  11. A short throw; a toss.
  12. 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.

  13. A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone.
    [Scot.]
  14. A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones.
    [Scot.]
  15. 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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