Crossword-Solution: CHOCKS 6 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Having found it impossible to combine satisfactorily wood with iron, each being so differently affected by temperature and moisture, I secured some of these novelties of construction in a patent, by which filling in the spaces between frames, &c., with Portland cement, instead of chocks of wood, and covering the iron plates with cement and tiles, came into practice, and this has since come into very general use.

The chocks were jerked out, the rail torn off, and the very covering-board splintered, and still the anchor held.

Aft of this building most of the remaining bridge deck was taken up by two lifeboats, canvas-covered and housed in chocks.

Convincing himself that this was necessary, Frederick lifted his head, a bright color mounted to his chocks, and his eyes flashed as he bowed graciously to his people.

The cooker-boxes were of Venesta board, with hinged lids secured by chocks and overlapped by japara cloth to exclude as much drift-snow as possible.