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chalk line
noun
, Building Trades.
- a chalked string for making a straight line on a large surface, as a wall, by holding the string taut against the surface and snapping it to transfer the chalk.
- the line so made.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chalk line1
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50
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Example Sentences
All her life she had walked her chalk-line, and anything outside savoured of the mysterious, and terrible.
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To the stiff pole and chalk-line fishermen of confirmed habits I have nothing to say.
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Easton walked a trifle too solemnly straight, as if he had set himself an imaginary chalk-line to follow.
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"Now, see that you walk a chalk line," the burglar said, fiercely.
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The program is to pay off everything and straighten that boy out and make him walk the chalk-line.
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