Word Meanings - REACTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A choking coil.

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• CHOKING
  1. That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation. 2. Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.
• CHOKING COIL
  A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.
• CHOKECHERRY
  The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.
• CHOKER
  1. One who, or that which, chokes. 2. A stiff wide cravat; a stock.
• 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.
• 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
• HOGCHOKER
  An American sole , related to the European sole, but of no market value.