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Definition of Chalk line
1. Noun. A chalked string used in the building trades to make a straight line on a vertical surface.
Definition of Chalk line
1. Noun. A line made on a surface by snapping a taut string or cord dusted with colored chalk. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chalk Line
Literary usage of Chalk line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"Then Kircher drew a chalk-line in a diagonal direction from one eye to the ...
Therefore Kircher affirms that the hen thinks the chalk-line a string by ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1873)
"Therefore Kircher affirms that the hen thinks the chalk-line a string by which
it is bound as at its feet, notwithstanding that the ribbon has been loosened ..."
3. Dansk-norsk-engelsk Ordbog by Johannes Magnussen (1902)
"-streg chalk line. -tegning crayon -painting; crayon. Krig [c] war; fere — wage
war, make war, war; ligge i — med be at war with; ..."
4. The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing, Painting, and by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1891)
"The chalk-line differs from the pen in this that, whereas in the pen-line two
hard outlines ... in the chalk-line the space is not enclosed by rigid limits, ..."
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