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Definition of Chacks
1. chack [v] - See also: chack
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Literary usage of Chacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"I'll gi' 'eo a skat (slap) in the chacks." Chad, a young bream. Chad. "We say,
Put a chad, that is, a turn of rope, in the horse's mouth." JH Nanki- vell. ..."
2. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
"The skins are often made into waistcoats. a skat (slap) in the chacks. ...
chacks, the cheeks. " I'll gi' 'ee Chad. "We say, Put a chad, that is, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1874)
"... ef her chacks wasn't quite so white." "Uncle Jack,"observed a labourer whom
we have not before heard, "us hevn't a-seed thy dear and tender measter yet. ..."
4. The Uganda Protectorate: An Attempt to Give Some Description of the Physical by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1902)
"... VOLCANIC chacks, Kl. lll.'KKO between nearly 8000 and 13000 feet, one looks
down, often over sheer precipices, ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"... q. what chacks, ie, checks or restrains the water, when apt to overflow.
To CHAUM, vn To chew voraciously, to eat up, Ettr. For. ..."
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