Also 4 chuk(ke, chokke. [Echoic.]
1. A species of cluck: e.g., that made by a cock, or a hen calling chickens, or by people in calling fowls; also that made to incite a horse.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Nun’s Pr. T., 354. He fly doun fro the beem … and eke hise hennes alle; And with a chuk [v.r. chukke, chokke] he gan hem for to calle.
1683. Temple, Mem., Wks. 1731, I. 391. They made the Chuck four or five times that people use to make to Chickens when they call them.
a. 1791. Wesley, Wks. (1830), XIII. 419. The parrot made the chuck that people use to make to chickens.
1860. Trollope, Framley P., vi. 169. Made the coachman … give a chuck to his horses.
2. A provincial name for the wheatear.
