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▪ I. chunk, n.1 colloq. and dial.|tʃʌŋk|
[app. a modification of chuck. Esp. common in U.S.]
1. a. A thick, more or less cuboidal, lump, cut off anything; e.g. wood, bread, cheese, meat, etc.
1691Ray S. & E. Country Wds. (E.D.S.), Chuck, a great chip..In other countries [= districts] they call it a chunk. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. (1844) I. xvi. 116 Chunks of this marrow-fat are cut off. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. i. 15 A chunk of frozen walrus-beef. 1859Times 17 Feb. 9 A considerable quantity of this kind of gold..in the state of chunks and flakes of some size. 1882Besant All Sorts 83 Give him a chunk of wood to whittle. 1888Berksh. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Chunks, split pieces of firewood of more uniform thickness than chumps.
fig.1833J. Hall Leg. West 50 (Th.), If a man got into a chunk of a fight with his neighbour, a lawyer would clear him for half a dozen muskrat skins. a1860New York in Slices, Theatre (Bartl.), Now and then a small chunk of sentiment or patriotism or philanthropy is thrown in. 1876Besant & Rice Gold. Butterfly xxix. 219 Pay out the information in small chunks. 1957T. S. Eliot On Poetry & Poets 49 Crabbe is a poet who has to be read in large chunks, if at all.
b. A block of wood. Chiefly U.S.
1781Witherspoon Druid No. vii, in M. M. Mathews Beginnings Amer. Eng. (1931) 25 Chunks, that is brands, half burnt wood. This is customary in the middle Colonies. 1816Pickering Vocab. 60 Chunk..is also used in the Northern States, to signify a thick, short block or bit of wood. 1821Z. Hawley Tour 21 Jan. (1822) 44 (Th.), In the room of andirons, many families make use of what are here called chunks, which are the two brands of a large forestick, or billets of wood cut on purpose for this use. 1856Knickerbocker June 634 [In the factory at Nyack] The tub is placed over a ‘chunk’, and turned off outside in a few moments, and hooped. It is next placed in a hollow chunk and turned out perfectly smooth inside. 1885Jefferies Open Air 170 The pile of ‘chunks’..formed a wall of wood at my back. 1958W. F. McCulloch Woods Words 34 Chunk, a piece of a log sawed or broken off.
c. A fair- or large-sized specimen of an animal or person. U.S.
1822J. Woods Two Yrs.' Resid. Eng. Prairie 285 A hog of two hundred lbs weight is here called a fine chunk of a fellow. 1823J. Doddridge Backwoodsman & Dandy (1868), I was then a thumpin chunk of a boy. 1827Western Monthly Rev. I. 386 Himself ambling by her side upon a ‘chunk’ of a poney. 1841C. Cist Cincinnati 180 For sale—a good chunk of a plough horse. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 454 ‘A tolerable chunk of a pony’, means, in Southern and Western parlance, a cob. 1887C. B. George 40 Yrs. on Rail i. 22 You're a pretty good chunk of a boy to be riding for half [fare]. 1900G. Ade More Fables 6 At the Hotel he spotted a stylish little chunk of a Woman.
d. A stoutly-built horse or pony; spec. a heavy draught-horse. U.S.
1818J. Palmer Jrnl. Trav. U.S. 131 The other words and sayings that are peculiar to the United States..are as follows..Chunk, a small horse. 1829T. Flint G. Mason 108 (Th.), There were to be merry races of asses and ‘chunks’, by persons who volunteered as the Merry-Andrews of the meeting. 1887Boston Herald 12 Aug. (Cent. Dict.), For sale, 4 Morgan chunks. 1906Springfield Daily Republ. 7 Feb. 2 (Advt.), Pair gray farm chunks, 9 years, 2350 lbs. 1915Greenfield (Mass.) Gaz. & Courier 10 July 1 (Advt.), For Sale—Horses. We have a few good chunks left.
e. A large or substantial amount. colloq.
a1889N.Y. Star in Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang I. 252/2 Look here, pard, we've struck it this time: chunks of it! 1907Chicago Tribune 8 May 7 (Advt.), It's really ridiculous the way we've knocked chunks off these Spring overcoat prices. 1923Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xiii. 148 Eustace and I both spotted that he had dropped a chunk of at least half a dozen pages out of his sermon-case as he was walking up to the pulpit. 1977J. D. MacDonald Condominium xxv. 230 Steve Corbin moved that Scherbel read the whole list and they would approve it all in one chunk, and Jack Dorsey seconded it and it passed. 1985G. Paley Later Same Day 27 He owes me a chunk of dough.
2. attrib. and Comb., as chunk firewood; chunk-head (U.S.), a serpent of the rattlesnake family.
1880Libr. Univ. Knowl. IV. 314 Copperhead..called ‘deaf adder’, and ‘chunk-head’. 1888E. Morning News (Hull) 25 Oct. 2/4 For sale, Chunk Firewood, 1s. per cwt.
▪ II. chunk, ˈchunky, n.2
[From chungke a game played by the Cherokees and other North American Indians, consisting in trundling a stone disc, and throwing a pole or dart to fall near it. See Bartram in Trans. Amer. Ethnol. Soc. III. i. 34 (1853), Adair Hist. Amer. Ind. (1775) 401.]
chunk- or chunky-yard, a name given by the traders to a square area surrounded by a bank in Creek towns, used for ceremonials and games (including that of chungke). chunk or chunky pole; a pine-tree pillar on a low mound in the centre of the chunk-yard, on the top of which was placed an object to shoot at.
1773Bartram Trav. Florida 518 (Bartl.) Vast tetragon terraces, chunk-yards, and obelisks or pillars of wood. 1860Thoreau Lett (1865) 189 That memorable stone ‘chunk yard’. 1865Lubbock Preh. Times (1869) 259 The ‘chunk-yards’..are sometimes from 6 to 9 hundred feet in length, being largest in the older towns..In the centre is a low mound, on which stands the chunk-pole.
▪ III. chunk, v.1 U.S. colloq.
[f. chunk n.1]
trans.
1. To hit, or throw at, with a missile.
1835W. G. Simms Partisan 112 Well, doctor, get down and chunk it, if its worth having, its worth killing. Ibid. 425 His dog stole my bacon..and when I chunked the varmint, the nigger gin me sass. 1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2), To Chunk, to throw sticks or chips at one. Southern and Western. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 188 In the South..they say: ‘I'll chunk him’, meaning that they will throw a clod of earth or a stick of wood at some animal. 1887J. C. Harris Free Joe 115 Ef you want to chunk anybody, chunk me... An' ef you don't want to chunk me, chunk your mammy. a1910‘O. Henry’ Sixes & Sevens (1916) xii. 120 The crowd kept on chunkin' her till she run clear out of town. 1968J. D. MacDonald Pale Grey for Guilt (1969) xii. 153 He chunked the four that were turned on to the biggest high, chunked them cold, and he chunked the record player, busted it all to hell.
2. To replenish (a fire) with fuel; to collect materials for burning. Freq. with up.
1840Southern Lit. Messenger VI. 398/2 Chunk the fire, Charles, and see if you cannot make it burn better. 1850L. H. Garrard Wah-To-Yah iv. 69 Smith kept the squaws of the lodge ‘chunking’ up the fire. 1905Terms Forestry & Logging 33 To chunk up, to collect and pile for burning the slash left after logging. 1929W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 33 There was a fire..and T. P. squatting..in front of it, chunking it into a blaze.
b. Logging. (See quots.)
1905Terms Forestry & Logging 33 Chunk, to clear the ground, with engine or horses, of obstructions which can not be removed by hand. 1969L. G. Sorden Lumberjack Lingo 24 Chunk out, to clean skid roads, especially to remove chunks.
▪ IV. chunk, v.2
[Onomatopœic.]
intr. To proceed with a plunging or explosive sound. Also trans. Hence ˈchunking vbl. n. and ppl. a. Similarly chunk-chunk n. and v.
1890Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 50 Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay? 1898Daily News 20 Jan. 5/4 We heard the chunk-chunking sound of the Maxims. 1902E. Rickert Cypress Swamp 2 There was a chunking sound, followed by another. 1907Tatlock Devel. & Chronol. Chaucer's Wks. 138 Amid the cluttering and chunking of one hundred and twenty-eight hoofs. 1908Daily Chron. 29 Aug. 4/4 She makes a cheerful chunk-chunk with her paddles. 1924Scribner's Mag. Feb. 206/2 The Chindwin's paddles chunked a song now. 1924‘Lucas Malet’ Dogs of Want iv. 103 A..paddle-steamer chunk-chunking across to St. Gingolph. 1925Blackw. Mag. Oct. 560/2 A Thames steamer chunking her way up the Tigris. 1952J. Masters Deceivers vii. 76 The waterwheel..distantly chunked and gurgled. |