The Cadet turned suddenly with a surprised look, opened his hand and said ‘a piece of chalk,’ at the same time displaying it.
Stonewall Jackson, VMI’s Most Embattled Professor|S. C. Gwynne|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Heroin used to come in the same way, either packed in bundles of wax baggies or as chunks resembling sticks of chalk.
This Anti-Heroin Drug Is Now King of the Jailhouse Drug Trade|Daniel Genis|July 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Submit to his apologia for Murmelstein, or chalk this up to a case of a filmmaker courting controversy?
Confessions of a Death Camp Collaborator: Claude Lanzmann’s ‘The Last of the Unjust’|Jimmy So|February 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In a vain attempt at positive self-reinforcement, chalk all this up to maybe having worked out too hard last week.
So You Have an Inconsequential But Awful Illness|Kelly Williams Brown|January 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They were chalk marks on the floor because somebody whacked the erasers.
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Office-seekers and speech-makers, who do not so much as lay an honest egg, but wear their breasts bare upon an egg of chalk!
A Plea for Captain John Brown|Henry David Thoreau
They are best suited for chalk districts or rocky ones, where they thrive most luxuriantly, and make a very brilliant display.
The Wild Garden|William Robinson
And then he became interested in the men who were working in the chalk pit down below.
The Research Magnificent|H. G. Wells
What money a man might make out of chalk, if he had it in some place ready to sell, and people would buy it!
The Queen's Scarlet|George Manville Fenn
She must have eaten lots of raw coffee and chalk, I'll be bound.
The Day of Wrath|Maurus Jkai
British Dictionary definitions for chalk
chalk
/ (tʃɔːk) /
noun
a soft fine-grained white sedimentary rock consisting of nearly pure calcium carbonate, containing minute fossil fragments of marine organisms, usually without a cementing material
a piece of chalk or a substance like chalk, often coloured, used for writing and drawing on a blackboard
a line, mark, etc made with chalk
billiardssnookera small cube of prepared chalk or similar substance for rubbing the tip of a cue
Britisha score, tally, or record
as alike as chalk and cheeseoras different as chalk and cheeseinformaltotally different in essentials
by a long chalkBritishinformalby far
can't tell chalk from cheeseordoesn't know chalk from cheeseto be unable to judge or appreciate important differences
not by a long chalkBritishinformalby no means; not possibly
(modifier)made of chalk
verb
to draw or mark (something) with chalk
(tr)to mark, rub, or whiten with or as if with chalk
A soft, white, gray, or yellow limestone consisting mainly of calcium carbonate and formed primarily from the accumulation of fossil microorganisms such as foraminifera and calcareous algae. Chalk is used in making lime, cement, and fertilizers, and as a whitening pigment in ceramics, paints, and cosmetics. The chalk used in classrooms is usually artificial.