| • | To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. |
| • | To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. |
| • | To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. |
| • | To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. |
| • | To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun. |
| • | To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled. |
| • | To be checked, as if by choking; to stick. |
| • | A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation. |
| • | The tied end of a cartridge. |
| • | A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc. |
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