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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CHUNK, n. A short thick piece of wood. [Colloquial.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder" [syn: ball, clod, glob, lump, clump, chunk]
2: a substantial amount; "we won a chunk of money" v
1: put together indiscriminately; "lump together all the applicants" [syn: lump, chunk]
2: group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side [syn: collocate, lump, chunk]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: perhaps alteration of chuck short piece of wood Date: 1691 1. a short thick piece or lump (as of wood or coal) 2. a large noteworthy quantity or part <bet a sizable chunk of money on the race> 3. a strong thickset horse usually smaller than a draft horse II. verb Etymology: imitative Date: 1890 intransitive verb to make a dull plunging or explosive sound <the rhythmic chunking of thrown quoits — John Updike> transitive verb to mishit (a golf ball or shot) by striking the ground behind the ball

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 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 Dictionary

Chunk 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 Tongue

Among printers, a journeyman who refuses to work for legal wages; the same as the flint among taylors. See FLINT.

Moby Thesaurus

accumulation, 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