Definitions for chalk

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chalk chalk

Spelling: [chawk]

IPA: /tʃɔk/

Chalk is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in chalk (achkl).

Definitions for chalk

noun

1. a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
2. a prepared piece of chalk or chalklike substance for marking, as a blackboard crayon.
3. a mark made with chalk.
4. a score or tally.

adjective

1. of, made of, or drawn with chalk.

Verb phrases

1. chalk up, to score or earn: to charge or ascribe to:

verb (used with object)

1. to mark or write with chalk.
2. to rub over or whiten with chalk.
3. to treat or mix with chalk:
4. to make pale; blanch:

verb (used without object)

1. (of paint) to powder from weathering.

Origin of chalk

before 900; Middle English chalke, Old English cealc Latin calc- (stem of calx) lime

Examples for chalk

Submit to his apologia for Murmelstein, or chalk this up to a case of a filmmaker courting controversy?

I'll chalk a lane into the closet, an' we'll both keep a right o' way there.

Notes were scrawled on a large white board, and “The Internet Association” was written in chalk on a blackboard.

A may bush, overhanging a little precipice of chalk, caught her eye.

In a vain attempt at positive self-reinforcement, chalk all this up to maybe having worked out too hard last week.

Where's that piece o' chalk you had when you marked out your tumbler-quilt?

The chalk is deeply indented in many places, and is honey-combed with caves.

Heroin used to come in the same way, either packed in bundles of wax baggies or as chunks resembling sticks of chalk.

The Cadet turned suddenly with a surprised look, opened his hand and said ‘a piece of chalk,’ at the same time displaying it.

The fascination of writing on it with chalk still obsessed the children.