chockablock
Stuffed to capacity
Chockablock means packed tightly together, crammed full: The shelves were chockablock with old books.
Originally a nautical term describing blocks of a tackle drawn so close together they touch.
Often intensified as chock-full or used with "with": The street was chockablock with tourists.
Sometimes spelled chock-a-block.
Filled to capacity
- jammedUnable to move freely
- crammedOverfilled or overstuffed
- stuffedFilled beyond capacity
- congestedBlocked by overcrowding
overcrowded · cramped · bursting · overflowing · teeming · swarming · thronged · heaving
packed
Filled to capacity
congested · overcrowded · cramped · bursting · overflowing · teeming · swarming · thronged · heaving · mobbed
brimming
Full to the top
filled · stuffed · gorged · glutted · bulging · overstuffed · bursting · maxed-out · capacity · satiated
rigging
Ropes controlling ship sails
sheet · clew · winch · seamanship · marlinspike · deck · mooring · bollard · capstan · belay
- fullnessfull, empty, half-full, filled, half-empty
block, blockage, blocky, chock-full, blockages, chock, chock-a-block, block and tackle