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Definition of Chacking
1. chack [v] - See also: chack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chacking
Literary usage of Chacking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"Words omitted in their proper Places. Brage, to scold violently. chacking,
half-famished, as if the cheeks were smitten together. ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"... the "chacking" alarm-note and the rarer song of our Wheatear, the similar
habits of our Stonechat and "Whine-hat, not to mention other allied forms; ..."
3. The Land's End: A Naturalist's Impressions in West Cornwall by William Henry Hudson (1908)
"... black and white magpie and chacking, tail-shaking butcher-bird ; adder and
snake and slow-worm ; blood-sucking stoat and weasel with flat heads and ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"The plane used for glatt- chacking windows, ie for making the outer part or a
sash fit for receiving the glass, Loth., South of S. ; pron. q. ..."
5. Reynard the Fox by John Masefield (1920)
"A blue uneasy jay was chacking. (A swearing screech, like tearing sacking) From
tree to tree, as in pursuit, He said "That's it. There's fox afoot. ..."
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