chockstone

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IPA /ˈtʃɒkstəʊn/

Noun

chockstone noun

A stone, ranging in size from a boulder to a pebble, which has become wedged in a vertical fissure or cleft.
A metal wedge or nut, threaded on a wire, used in rock climbing for protection by wedging it into a crack in the rock.

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chock choke chuckstone chuckiestone rock scotch shake chucky clast stean strockle slumpstone stob tablestone stumbling-stone quarrying

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