Usually means: White, powdery substance for writing.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. chalk, chalk-: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. chalk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chalk: Collins English Dictionary
  4. chalk: Vocabulary.com
  5. Chalk, chalk: Wordnik
  6. chalk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Chalk, chalk: Wiktionary
  8. chalk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. chalk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. chalk: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. chalk: Dictionary.com
  12. chalk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. chalk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Chalk (TV series), Chalk (disambiguation), Chalk (drying agent), Chalk (film), Chalk (military), Chalk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Chalk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. chalk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. chalk: Rhymezone
  18. Chalk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. chalk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. chalk: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. Chalk: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. chalk: Free Dictionary
  23. chalk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. chalk: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. chalk: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. chalk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chalk: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chalk (Drying agent), chalk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Chalk: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  3. chalk: Medical dictionary
  4. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. CHALK: Acronym Finder
  3. chalk: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  3. chalk: Natural History Terms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. chalk, chalk, chalk, chalk, chalk, chalk, chalk, chalk, chalk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. chalk (farm): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Chalk: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. chalk: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Chalk: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See chalked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO₃).
noun:  (countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO₄), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
noun:  Tailor's chalk.
noun:  (uncountable, climbing, gymnastics) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO₃).
noun:  (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
noun:  (US, sports, chiefly basketball, horse racing) The favorite in a sporting event.
noun:  (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
verb:  To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
verb:  To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
verb:  To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
verb:  (figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
verb:  To manure (land) with chalk.
verb:  To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A suburban village attached to the east side of Gravesend, Gravesham borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ6773).

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