chalk
/t͡ʃɔk/ verb C2- To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue. · chalk your hands before climbing
- To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
- To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
- To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
- To manure (land) with chalk.
- To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
He/she/it chalks · Past chalked · Past participle chalked · -ing form chalking
Verb forms
- Base form
- chalk
- He/she/it
- chalks
- Past
- chalked
- Past participle
- chalked
- -ing form
- chalking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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At once the cap changed to a slate, on which was written in big, white chalk marks:
These woods are locally supposed to be the extreme fringe of the great Weald forest, which thins away until it reaches the northern chalk downs.
Phillips took a chalk crayon and wrote on the blackboard above her head.
They say he could chalk his billiard-cue with his knuckles.
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