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/tʃɑk aʊt/ Listen

verb

Chalk v. t. (past & past part. chalked; pres. part. chalking)

To rub or mark with chalk.

To manure with chalk, as land.

To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach. "Let a bleak paleness chalk the door."

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."

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... and friends, If they come 'thwart his private ends— Unmoved he hears the general call, And bravely tramples on them all. Who will, for him, may cant and whine, And let weak Conscience with her line Chalk out their ways; such starving rules Are only fit for coward fools; 340 Fellows who credit what priests tell, And tremble at the thoughts of Hell; His spirit dares contend with Grace, And meets Damnation face to face. Such was our ...

— Poetical Works • Charles Churchill