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Definition of Chalking
1. Noun. (context: painting) The appearance of non-gloss paint on an exterior surface due to chemical deterioration and removal by weather. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of chalk) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chalking
1. chalk [v] - See also: chalk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chalking
Literary usage of Chalking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most by Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott (1813)
"WALL chalking. [Fiom the Morning Post, March ?.] MR. ... My first essay at Mural
Literature was chalking up, at the desire of my Patron, " Cheap Bread,"' ..."
2. Annals of the American Revolution: Or, A Record of the Causes and Events by Jedidiah Morse (1824)
"... which could arise, was on the means of attaining that wished-for object; but
that the proper moment for chalking out the lines of an accommodation was ..."
3. Narrative of the Expedition to China, from the Commencement of the War to by John Elliot Bingham (1843)
"Proceedings at Macao during the absence of the Admiral—Smuggling by the Broadway—New
Rewards for British—Enlisting Troops—chalking Fingers— Two Officers ..."
4. In Foreign Fields: Sketches of Travel in South America and Western Europe by Joseph Elwyn Wing (1913)
"THE PRACTICE OF chalking LAND. Yesterday we went to see a rich and lovely farm
situated in a valley, but running up on a hill at one side. ..."
5. Letters to the Young on Progress in Pudsey During the Last Sixty Years by Joseph Lawson (1887)
"... the Weddings—" chalking up a Shot "—Throwing away money for luck—" Sodding the
... chalking ..."
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