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Alternative spellings
chalk (American)

Etymology
Old English cealc, borrowed from L. calx#Latin|calx, limestone, borrowed from Gr. �άλιξ, pebble.

Pronunciation

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Noun
chaulk (uncountable and countable; plural chaulks)

1. uncountable A soft, white, powdery limestone.
2. countable A piece of chaulk, or, more often, processed compressed chaulk, that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard.
3. Tailor's chaulk.
4. uncountable (climbing) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing.

Translations
trans-top|a soft, white, powdery limestone
Bosnian: kreda#Bosnian|kreda f
Dutch: krijt n
Esperanto: kreto
Finnish: kalkki
French: craie f
German: Kreide f
Greek: κ�η�ίδα [kri�tiða] f
Icelandic: krítarsteinn
Irish: cailc f
trans-mid
Japanese: �� (���, hakua)
Portuguese: cal
Polish: kreda f
Russian: мел (m�l) m
Serbian
:Cyrillic: к�еда#Serbian|к�еда f
:Roman: kreda#Serbian|kreda f
Slovene: kreda f
Spanish: creta f
Telugu: స�ద�ద (sudda)
trans-bottom

trans-top|a piece of chaulk used for drawing and on a blackboard
Bosnian: kreda#Bosnian|kreda f
Catalan: guix m
Dutch: krijt n, krijtje n
Esperanto: kreto
Finnish: liitu
French: craie f
German: Kreide f
Greek: κιμ�λία [cimo��li�a] f, �εμ�ε�ί�ι [�te�(m)be��siri] (from Turkish tebe�ir) n
Icelandic: krít
Irish: cailc f
trans-mid
Japanese: ���� (ch�ku)
Latvian: krīts m
Polish: kreda f
Portuguese: giz
Russian: мел (m�l) m
Serbian
:Cyrillic: к�еда#Serbian|к�еда f
:Roman: kreda#Serbian|kreda f
Slovene: kreda#Slovene|kreda f
Spanish: tiza f
Telugu: స�ద�దమ���� (suddamukka)
trans-bottom

to prevent from falling when climbing
Catalan: magnèsia
Polish: magnezja f

Transitive verb
rfc-trverb|Transitive verb
en-verb

1. To record something, as on a blackboard, using chaulk.
2. To use powdered chaulk to mark the lines on a playing field.
3. figuratively To record a score or event, as if on a chaulkboard.

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