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blacking

[ UK /blˈækɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a substance used to produce a shiny protective surface on footwear

How To Use blacking In A Sentence

  • Within two years, Charles was sent to work at a blacking factory in the Strand.
  • That's why, when I was getting into my 5Ks, I'd get through about two miles of them and just start kind of blacking out just from not getting oxygen. Runner\'s World Racing News
  • To prevent blacking out, I tighten every muscle in my lower extremities, from my stomach to the little tendons in my toes.
  • I am surprised that dockers have not done something about blacking these products, which I am sure are exported through some docks in the country.
  • I was put to do all sorts of unpleasant work, such as blacking down the rigging, greasing the masts, and helping Dirty Dick to clean the caboose and sweep out the forecastle. Happy Jack and other Tales of the Sea
  • In The FBI Files 43, he has overpainted the photograph of a man to create a Baconian screaming magnate; the FBI document around him has an exaggerated amount of blacking out that seems to be constricting the figure.
  • The blacking warehouse was the last house on the left-hand side of the way, at old Hungerford-stairs.
  • Short of blacking her face I think she has run out of threats and insults. dan davenport Clinton rallies union in Puerto Rico
  • Had Tom even invented a new kind of blacking, or if Dan had started a newspaper, it might have been encouraging for those among the listeners who were thinking of engaging in similar professions. The Art of the Story-Teller
  • As for "blacking" up to resemble Moors, most Moroccans are of a "cafe au lait" hue. Army Rumour Service
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