The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chalk \Chalk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chalked; p. pr. & vb. n. Chalking.]
To rub or mark with chalk.
To manure with chalk, as land.
--Morimer.-
To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
--Tennyson.Let a bleak paleness chalk the door.
--Herbert.To chalk out, to sketch with, or as with, chalk; to outline; to indicate; to plan. [Colloq.] ``I shall pursue the plan I have chalked out.''
--Burke.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Something chalked on a surface. 2 (context painting English) The appearance of non-gloss paint on an exterior surface due to chemical deterioration and removal by weather. vb. (present participle of chalk English)
Usage examples of "chalking".
He finished chalking the last of the sigils and straightened with a groan.
And that was why she was on her hands and knees chalking out the four Quarters of his diagram in the right colors—pale red for Fire and the South, blue for Air and the East, green for Water and the West, and yellow for Earth and the North.
At the blackboard a sailor wearing earphones was chalking new numbers beside MNGE TO TARGU: 153 miles.
Warren gave the debriefing officer his combat account, chalking out his dive maneuver on the blackboard, while the jubilant pilot talk went on and on-who had gotten a hit, who had missed, who had been attacked by Zeroes, who had been seen on fire or going in the water, who might have ditched on the return leg.
Halsey was chalking up his victory early: one carrier sunk, two carriers and a cruiser "badly hit," only one carrier left undamaged.
He is always spelling out words from them, and chalking them over the table and the shop-wall, and asking what this is and what that is.
What do you mean by bullying me about not chalking their door, last night, along with the rest?
He and Michael dashed about, calling measurements to one another and chalking strange signs in the places where they had earlier put up metal brackets.
Sophie and the dog-man were pushed this way and that, and then pushed aside completely so that Michael could crawl about chalking a five-pointed star inside a circle on the floor.
Abercrombie was chalking a pentagram on the floor while a sputtering Malzius had been deputized to sterilize a pocket knife with match.
Chaim Cohen climbed up onto the disselboom of the nearest wagon to the arena and began chalking up the draw on a greenruled board, and the bookmakers craned for the matchings and then began calling their odds for each bout.
There were only ten bouts, and mister Cohen had finished chalking the ninth already.
Li Yuan went among them fearlessly, a piece of plain white chalk in his hand, meeting the eyes of each of them in turn, chalking the men and morphs, ignoring most of the boys.
The first object with which they had an association, or of which they had a remembrance, was a large black board with a dry Ogre chalking ghastly white figures on it.
The shop was closed, for the day's racing was over, but a dozen clerks were still busy, some of them chalking up the Tote prices and other details on huge boards.