Definition of "chokeful"

He will have guessed that the Hanover is a recapture, and depend upon it he knows that M. le Ministre will forgive his anxiety to preserve the corvette to the grand nation, when he reports that he was opposed to two British vessels, one of them of trois mâts, both heavily armed, and, of course, chokeful of men.

1881, W[illiam] Clark Russell, “The Action with the Corvette”, in An Ocean Free-Lance. From a Privateersman’s Log, 1812., volume I, London: Richard Bentley and Son, […], page 137

The table was covered with a confusion of papers, books, pamphlets, all heaped upon one another pell-mell; and an open secretaire against the wall, was chokeful of the same litter; […]

, [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], “‘The Breaker has come up before Them’”, in Ishmael: […], volume I, London: John and Robert Maxwell, […], page 289

The gaols are chokeful of people committed for refusing or delaying to transplant.

1899, Thomas Fitzpatrick, “Doing the Work of the Lord!”, in The King of Claddagh: A Story of the Cromwellian Occupation of Galway, London: Sands & Company, page 222