"bechalk" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "be- + chalk",
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      "form": "bechalks",
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      "form": "bechalking",
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      "form": "bechalked",
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      "form": "bechalked",
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        {
          "ref": "1840, George Darley, Thomas À Becket: A Dramatic Chronicle, in Five Acts, page 51",
          "text": "Let fear give worse intelligence through your eyes, Make pale your lips, and so bechalk your cheeks That he shall stare as wild!",
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        {
          "ref": "1856, Richard Cumberland, Memoirs of Richard Cumberland",
          "text": "...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",
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          "ref": "1885, The Mason College Magazine - Volumes 3-4, page 132",
          "text": "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.",
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        "To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk."
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          "chalk"
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        "(archaic) To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk."
      ],
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  "word": "bechalk"
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  "etymology_text": "be- + chalk",
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    {
      "form": "bechalks",
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        "third-person"
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        "participle",
        "present"
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      "form": "bechalked",
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        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "bechalked",
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        {
          "ref": "1840, George Darley, Thomas À Becket: A Dramatic Chronicle, in Five Acts, page 51",
          "text": "Let fear give worse intelligence through your eyes, Make pale your lips, and so bechalk your cheeks That he shall stare as wild!",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1856, Richard Cumberland, Memoirs of Richard Cumberland",
          "text": "...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",
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        "To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk."
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        "(archaic) To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk."
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