Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet CHOCKS

Definition av CHOCKS

1. böjningsform av chock

Exempel på hur man kan använda CHOCKS i en mening

• The original plan was to dismount the eight guns on the forecastle and quarterdeck and stow them on chocks on the deck during daylight to prevent them from being damaged by muzzle blast from the main guns.
• These techniques date at least in part from the 1920s and earlier in England, but the term itself may have emerged in about 1970 during the widespread and rapid adoption in the United States and Canada of nuts (also called chocks), and the very similar but often larger hexes, in preference to pitons, which damage rock and are more difficult and time-consuming to install.
• An early invention were locking wheel clamps or chocks that owners could shackle onto one of the car's road wheels as a hobble, making it impossible to roll the vehicle unless the entire wheel was removed.
• Drivers load their own lorries onto the trains, and once they are in place and secured with wheel chocks they are taken to the club car at the front of the train by minibus.
• During April and June 1940, the Glens underwent further conversion into LSIs capable of transporting an embarked force of up to 34 officers and 663 other ranks and carrying 12 LCAs on Welin-McLachan davits and 1 LCM(1) stored in chocks on deck and launched by 30-ton derricks.
• On November 19, 2002, semi-truck driver Michael Zuber was killed by drowning after his semi-truck rolled off the back deck of the Susan Anne while he was asleep behind the wheel after crew members neglected to place wheel chocks behind the back wheels of Zuber's semi-truck.
• Cribbing equipment is normally of three varieties: rectangular blocks, wedges (also called shims), and "step chocks" (large wooden chocks constructed of wood of different lengths).
• The barrels were loaded by crane onto chocks positioned on General Craufurds portside deck and were then rolled off the deck via a thick wooden ramp onto the stone jetty in Dunkirk.
• Historian Malkasian argues that negotiations with the Taliban would have been low cost but highly effective at this stage and chocks it up to US overconfidence and hubris, and notes that all the information that the Taliban could resurge was available but ignored.
• These include dollies, chocks, aircraft service stairs, aircraft refuelers, transporters, catering vehicles, and belt loaders.
• Before the aircraft was taken off its chocks, it was de-iced due to a light freezing drizzle noted by the surface weather report:.
• The following fittings are stainless steel: stemhead fitting with anchor roller and mooring fairleads built in; stern and springline chocks; stanchions and stern/bow pulpits with double lifelines and gates each side.

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