Crossword clues for blacking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
blacking \black"ing\, n.
Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.
The act or process of making black.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"thing which makes (something else) black," 1570s; as "action of making black," c.1600, verbal noun from black (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 a preparation, containing lampblack, used to produce a shiny black coating 2 shoe polish vb. (present participle of black English)
WordNet
n. a substance used to produce a shiny protective surface on footwear [syn: shoe polish]
Wikipedia
Blacking may refer to:
- Blacking (polish), a nineteenth-century shoe polish
- Blacking up, putting on a style of theatrical makeup to take on the appearance of certain archetypes of American racism
- Blacking (cryptography) In NSA jargon, encryption devices are often called blackers, because they convert red signals to black
Usage examples of "blacking".
This being so, supposing for the sake of argument we divide ourselves into twenty parts, nineteen savage and one civilized, we must look to the nineteen savage portions of our nature, if we would really understand ourselves, and not to the twentieth, which, though so insignificant in reality, is spread all over the other nineteen, making them appear quite different from what they really are, as the blacking does a boot, or the veneer a table.
He began by blacking and polishing boots for cavalla officers, who seldom wore them anymore, for our former foes were the victors and there were no more battles in which honor might be reclaimed.
She was afraid of blacking out, crushed by the fierce intensity of the sensations their stiff pricks caused in her fucked ass and cunt.
Boot and Shoe Leather -- Harness Blackings, Dressings, Greases, Compositions, Soaps, and Boot-top Powders and Liquids, etc.
It was like the whole continent of America, with all us white people and Injuns and niggers, me included, lay sprawled like poor Miss Maybelle Shirley, with her end nearing, blacking out the stars.
Gately said her dog sure did like having its stomach rubbed, and Pat explained that the dog was epileptic, and said that just a desire to stop blacking out was more than enough to start with.
Seven hells for failed faith, For Land's betrayers, man and wraith: And one brave Lord to deal the doom To keep the blacking blight from Beauty's bloom.
There they stood under the stern sky, twenty-five souls singing like witnesses: Seven hells for failed faith, For Land's betrayers, man and wraith: And one brave Lord to deal the doom To keep the blacking blight from Beauty's bloom.
Then Lloyd biffed George in the nose, bloodying it, and Poke baffed him in the eye, blacking it as per request.
And I have additionally stove blacking, laundry bluing, wash powders, and these very fine clothespins that have a patent pending for the superior spring mechanism that they employ.
The passers-by joined in cheerfully, some blacking out teeth and adding warts to the tips of button noses, others grabbing the brushes from the defacers and applying them to their former owners' faces.
My right foot had slipped off the rounded axle casing and I shifted backwards, swinging my boot up again, but everything was blacking out and the sound of the transports died to silence, and in the silence I heard Frome's voice, a long way off.
Until he should obtain one he determined to devote half the day to blacking boots, not being willing to break in upon his small capital.
When she was twelve Nicola went on tothe charity school (cum blacking factory) while her soulmate was'adopted' or farmed out to a pitiless Iraqi.
She was busily blacking another gentleman's boots when a hansom cab rattled to a halt some distance from the kerbside and a well-dressed gentleman swung himself down.