(a.) Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Parts of the inner city have since become heavily commercialised, such as the area near the Drum and Bell tower – the old clock towers of Beijing; Nanluoguxiang alley close by has been made into a famous “snack street” that is now forever chockablock with people and waste – a no-go area for locals.
(2) Twitter is already chockablock with good luck wishes for those of you lucky enough to be receiving your GCSE results today.
Stuffed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Stuff
Example Sentences:
(1) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(2) You’d think such a spry, successful man would busy himself with other things besides crawling into a pile of stuffed animals to scare his daughter’s date.
(3) Jane Baxter's stuffed courgette flowers Stuffed courgette flowers Photograph: Rob White You can't get much more summery than courgette flowers – Jane Baxter's take on these light crispy fried delights (use a vegetarian parmesan-style cheese ).
(4) Many commentators considered the suggestion merely foolish, but computer hackers issued death threats against her and her children, which she promptly posted on Twitter, along with the defiant message: "Get stuffed, losers.
(5) I found swans and storks and all manner of seabirds but, again, no owls, because stuffing them is forbidden in France.
(6) Recently awarded best veggie blog by Vegetarian Living, her stuffed naan breads and toffee apple and peanut pudding are definitely on the to-eat list.
(7) The Pynes now live in Wakefield, in a cottage packed with photos of Morrissey and a dedicated music room stuffed with CDs and vinyl.
(8) From there, I graduated to admin tasks such as stuffing envelopes, sticking stamps on and posting them, giving out mail, making more tea.
(9) And as civil servants, Myanmar nationals living overseas and tens of thousands of soldiers have been casting their votes, there are concerns that the authorities might engage in ballot stuffing.
(10) The present study sought to determine the effects of such lesions on an operant conditioning task in which the reward was the presentation of one of two conspicuous objects, a stuffed jungle fowl or an illuminated red box.
(11) But as with the December vote, independent election monitors and opposition activists presented evidence of widespread falsifications, including ballot stuffing and "carousel voting" – packing vans with voters and bussing them to several polling sites to cast numerous votes.
(12) By the time the guests have their fill of caviar-stuffed potatoes and get in their limos to the Vanity Fair party across town, most are sufficiently well lubricated to deal with one another: I walk in to see Benedict Cumberbatch standing by the bar with Joan Collins, while Patrick Stewart and Jared Leto are expressing mutual admiration for one another nearby.
(13) Envelopes stuffed with cash, it is claimed, were their reward for ensuring Blatter beat Lennart Johansson, the 'honesty' candidate, to become the soccer world's most powerful leader.
(14) That said, I would definitely ask my mother to cook it, and offer a little of my help, as stuffed chard takes forever to prepare.
(15) Two Peruvian women were arrested in front of a school in Lima on Tuesday for trying to sell 100 small bags of marijuana that they had stuffed into their plastic horns, police said."
(16) CCS is basically about catching a problem and stuffing it away under the carpet,” Rasmusson said.
(17) I first had stuffed vine leaves at my grandad's guesthouse in Southend, and deeply regret not pilfering his recipe before he passed away.
(18) The Spanish classic arroz negro pays homage to both old country and new: instead of the standard squid ink and fish stock, it’s made with crab bisque and chilmole (the blackened chilli sauce of the Yucatán) and crowned with calamari stuffed with pork scratchings.
(19) Put the walnuts, garlic, coriander, and onion in a food processor and grind until fine – do not pulverise into a fine powder as the stuffing should retain a nice crunch.
(20) In a cupboard, tins of tomato soup, dried pasta, tea bags, tinned pineapple and stuffing mix.