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Webster's 1828 DictionaryCHUNK, n. A short thick piece of wood. [Colloquial.] WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)n Merriam Webster's
Oxford Reference Dictionaryn. 1 a thick solid slice or piece of something firm or hard. 2 a substantial amount or piece. Etymology: prob. var. of CHUCK(2) Webster's 1913 DictionaryChunk Chunk, n. [Cf. Chump.] A short, thick piece of anything. [Colloq. U. S. & Prov. Eng.] Collin's Cobuild Dictionary(chunks) 1. Chunks of something are thick solid pieces of it. ...a chunk of meat... Cut the melon into chunks. = lump N-COUNT: oft N of n 2. A chunk of something is a large amount or large part of it. (INFORMAL) The company owns a chunk of farmland near Gatwick Airport. N-COUNT: usu N of n 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar TongueAmong printers, a journeyman who refuses to work for legal wages; the same as the flint among taylors. See FLINT. Moby Thesaurusaccumulation, acervation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, allotment, allowance, amassment, amount, ante, batch, bet, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, block, book, bowl, budget, bulk, bunch, butt, cast, change of pace, change-up, chip, chuck, clip, clipping, clod, clump, clutch, collop, commission, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, contingent, count, crumb, cumulation, curve, cut, cutting, deal, destiny, dividend, dole, dollop, dose, downcurve, end, equal share, fastball, fate, fling, flip, forward pass, fragment, gathering, glomeration, gob, gobbet, group, half, halver, handbook, hazard, heap, heave, helping, hunch, hunk, hurl, incurve, interest, knuckleball, large amount, lateral, lateral pass, loaf, lob, lot, lump, mass, measure, meed, mess, modicum, moiety, morsel, nugget, number, outcurve, pack, parcel, paring, parlay, part, particle, pass, pat, peg, percentage, piece, pitch, play, portion, proportion, put, quantity, quantum, quota, rake-off, rasher, ration, scoop, scrap, screwball, segment, serve, service, shard, share, shaving, shiver, shot, shot-put, shred, shy, sinker, slice, slider, sling, sliver, small amount, small share, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, snowball, spitball, spitter, splinter, stake, stitch, stock, stockpile, stump, sum, tatter, throw, toss, upcurve, wad, wager |