Oats and darnel choke the rising corn.
Dryden.
4. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. "I was choked at this word." Swift.
5. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
To choke off, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.
Choke, v. i. 1. To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.