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Chalking
(gcide) | Chalk \Chalk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chalked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Chalking.]
1. To rub or mark with chalk.
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2. To manure with chalk, as land. --Morimer.
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3. To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
--Tennyson.
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Let a bleak paleness chalk the door. --Herbert.
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To chalk out, to sketch with, or as with, chalk; to
outline; to indicate; to plan. [Colloq.] "I shall pursue
the plan I have chalked out." --Burke.
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war-chalking
(jargon) | war-chalking
[play on war-driving; the first syllable has since been reinterpreted as
an acronym for “wireless access revolution”] The practice of using chalk
marks similar to hobo signs to indicate the nearby presence of a wireless
Internet access point, a boon to strolling hackers with laptops. The
concept was first floated in early 2002 and was instantly seized upon with
cries of glee by hackers all over the portions of the world urbanized
enough to have sidewalks and access points. The process rather recalls the
explosive spread of heraldry in the medieval Europe of the 1120s. There is
a site that explains the symbology;.
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