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bechalk

bechalk verb: to cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk.

Verb

bechalk (third-person singular simple present bechalks, present participle bechalking, simple past and past participle bechalked)

  1. (archaic) To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk.
    • Let fear give worse intelligence through your eyes, Make pale your lips, and so bechalk your cheeks That he shall stare as wild!1840, George Darley, Thomas À Becket: A Dramatic Chronicle, in Five Acts, page 51
    • ...but there must be luxury in the glare of lustres to a man who has drudged at his desk by the light of a tallow candle, and how much handsomer must a floor appear to him when splendidly bechalked by a capital designer, than when besprinkled with a watering pot by a slipshod apprenticel1856, Richard Cumberland, Memoirs of Richard Cumberland

Forms of bechalk

third-person singular presentbechalks
present participlebechalking
past participlebechalked
pastbechalked

Origin of bechalk

From be- + chalk.

Questions about bechalk

What does bechalk mean?
Bechalk means to cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk.
What part of speech is bechalk?
Bechalk is a verb.
What is the past tense of bechalk?
The past tense of bechalk is bechalked.

Words near bechalk in the dictionary

  1. Becerra
  2. Becerras
  3. Becerril
  4. Becerrils
  5. bechained
  6. bechalk
  7. bechalked
  8. bechalking
  9. bechalks
  10. bechamel
  11. bechamel sauce

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