ETYM French choquer. Related to Shock.
1. To secure with chocks.
2. To support on chocks, as of boats, for example.

To fill out or level up by the use of a shim

ETYM as. steallian to have room. Related to Stall.
1. To deliberately delay an event or action.
2. To cause an engine to stop.
3. To come to a stop; SYN. conk.
4. To cause an airplane to go into a stall.
5. To experience a stall in flight, of airplanes.

To squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; SYN. squeeze, force.
Block of triangular cross-section that can be used as a simple machine. An axe is a wedge: it splits wood by redirecting the energy of the downward blow sideways, where it exerts the force needed to split the wood.