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chalk line

a string impregnated with powdered chalk used in construction to mark a straight line on a surface such as a wall The string is held taut on the surface between the two end points of the line to be made the center of the line is drawn away from the surface and the string is released and snapped against the surface leaving a line of chalk in the desired location...

Chalking, or Caulking

Chalking, or Caulking, stopping the seams in a ship or vessel, Rot. Parl., 50 Edw. 3....

Cretaceous

Having the qualities of chalk abounding with chalk chalky as cretaceous rocks and formations See Chalk...

Blackboard

A broad board painted black or any black surface on which writing drawing or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons It is much used in schools In late 20th century similar boards of a green slate as well as some colored white became common wrioting on the slate bioards may be done with chalk but writing on the white boards is done with colored pens such as grease pens which leaves a trace that can be easily erased The newer boards usualy called chalkboards are nevertheless still sometimes referred to as blackboards...

Chalky

Consisting of or resembling chalk containing chalk as a chalky cliff a chalky taste...

Reddle

Red chalk See under Chalk...

Bufonite

An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts thick teeth whose remains occur in the ooumllite and chalk formations toadstone so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad...

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