chunk
/t͡ʃʌŋk/ noun B2- A part of something that has been separated; a generally squat, thick, irregular piece of something, e.g. wood or stone. · The statue broke into chunks.· a chunk of granite
- A large or substantial portion of something.
- A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic.
- A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
- A segment of a comedian's performance.
Plural chunks
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Evidently, as they had dragged the stone up they had thrust the chunks of wood into the chink, until at last, when the opening was large enough to crawl through, they would hold it open by a billet placed lengthwise, which might very well become indented at the lower end, since the whole weight of the stone would press it down on to the edge of this other slab.
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