Chuck

1. n. A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast.
2. v. i. To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.
3. v. i. To chuckle; to laugh.
4. v. t. To call, as a hen her chickens.
5. n. The chuck or call of a hen.
6. n. A sudden, small noise.
7. n. A word of endearment; — corrupted from chick.
8. v. t. To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to.
9. v. t. To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch.
10. v. t. To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
11. 1n. 1 A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast.
12. 1v. i. 1 To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.