Also 6–7 chalke, chaulk(e, chauk(e, 7 chawke. See also CAUK v.2 [f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To mix or treat with chalk.
1575. Laneham, Lett. (1871), 39. Mylk for theyr flawnez, not pild nor chalked.
1649. Blithe, Eng. Improv. Impr. (1652), 182. Land well Manured and Tilled, Dunged, Limed, Marled, or Chalked, or otherwise made fat and warm.
1759. trans. Duhamel’s Husb., I. viii. (1762), 35. It was the custom of the Britons to chalk their lands.
1875. [see CHALKING vbl. sb.].
2. To rub, mark or inscribe with chalk.
1592. Greene, Disput., 11. The boyes … shall chalke him on the backe for a Crosbite.
1677. Moxon, Mech. Exerc. (1703), 207. They chalk the Flat side of it.
1679. R. Mansell, Narr. Popish Plot, Addr. c. Wisest Counsels, which by ill success have been chalkt o’th’ back for Follies.
1813. Moore, Post Bag, VIII. 36. Thou know’st the time … It takes to chalk a ball-room floor.
1839. Dickens, Nich. Nick., xiv. Morleena … had the soles of her shoes chalked.
b. fig. To make white or pale as by rubbing with chalk; to blanch.
1633. G. Herbert, Temple, Forerunners, vi. Let a bleak palenesse chalk the doore.
1847. Tennyson, Princess, IV. 358. Fear Stared in her eyes, and chalk’d her face.
3. To write with chalk; to draw, mark, line with chalk.
1580. G. Harvey, 3 Wittie Lett., 36. Whom … I recount and chaulke uppe in the Catalogue.
1589. R. Harvey, Pl. Perc., 25. So I will chalke thy praises vp.
1709. Steele & Addison, Tatler, No. 93, ¶ 4. I have chalked out in every Figure my own Dimensions.
a. 1720. Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.), Wks. (1753), I. 96. As painters first chalk out the future face.
1823. J. Badcock, Dom. Amusem., 156. One chalks down nine figures.
1849. Sir F. B. Head, Stokers & Pokers, vi. (1851), 58. Large letters were chalked on consecutive compartments.
b. spec. To write up in chalk (a record, esp. of credits given); to score. Hence to chalk it: to run up a score, take ‘tick.’ ? Obs.
1597. 1st Pt. Return fr. Parnass., I. i. 451. All my debts stande chaukt upon the poste for liquor.
a. 1704. T. Brown, Wks. (1760), I. 182 (D.). A country parliament man that chalk’d it plentifully last winter session.
1845. [Emma Robinson], Whitehall, II. xxii. 244. If you are not mad, may I never chalk another pint!
1845. Disraeli, Sybil (1863), 282. Every man I chalked up was of the same opinion as the landlord of the Cat and Fiddle.
4. Chalk out. fig. † a. To mark out, as with chalk (obs.). b. To delineate, esp. by the main features; to outline, sketch out, adumbrate.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. xviii. 44. God did but (as it were under a dark shadowe) chalk out the … kingdom of his sonne.
1579. Tomson, Calvin’s Serm. Tim., 309/2. They are chalked out as enimies.
1634. W. Wood, New Eng. Prosp., I. viii. The Princely Eagle, and the soaring Hawke, Whom in their unknowne wayes there’s none can chawke.
1678. Bunyan, Pilgr., I. Apol. This Book it chaulketh out before thine eyes The man that seeks the everlasting Prize.
1765–93. Blackstone, Comm. (ed. 12), 412. We have now chalked out all the principal outlines of this vast title of the law.
c. fig. To trace out, mark out, as a course to be followed. Also occas. chalk forth (obs.).
1579. Gosson, Sch. Abuse (Arb.), 25. Chaulk out the way to do the like.
1610. Shaks., Temp., V. i. 203. It is you, that haue chalk’d forth the way Which brought vs hither. Ibid. (1613), Hen. VIII., I. i. 60. For being not propt by Auncestry, whose grace Chalkes Successors their way.
1613. Digges, Unlawf. Taking Arms, § 2 (1647), 14. That way to eternall glory, which our Saviour hath chalked out.
1670. Cotton, Espernon, I. II. 77. His Majesty being pleas’d … to chalk him out what he would have him do.
1707. Vulpone, 25. They have a much shorter way chalked out by this Article.
1754. Richardson, Grandison, VII. li. 259. Lay down your own plan: Chalk out your future steps.
1807. Byron, Childish Recoll., 68. When now the boy is ripen’d into man, His careful sire chalks forth some wary plan.
1872. J. Grant, Newsp. Press, III. xi. 253. [He] pursued the course which he had from the first chalked out for himself.
