Bechalk

Quick meaning: Bechalk is a verb meaning (archaic) To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk.

Meaning

(archaic) To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk.

Example Sentences

Let fear give worse intelligence through your eyes, Make pale your lips, and so bechalk your cheeks That he shall stare as wild!

Not only do blue or red bills in windows indicate committee rooms, but the politically-minded town-youth expresses his sympathies or antipathies on the' mouldering walls of ancient colleges, which are bechalked with exhortations to vote for Hall or Fyife.

...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 apprenticel

Word Forms

• bechalks
• bechalking
• bechalked

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include beclart, enchisel, blatch, bedash, beplaster, bedeck.

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