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.