Blacking Definition

blăkĭng
noun
A preparation, such as a shoe or stove polish, that is used to impart a black color.
American Heritage
A black polish, as for shoes.
Webster's New World

A preparation, containing lampblack, used to produce a shiny black coating to something.

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Shoe polish.
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verb

Present participle of black.

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Blacking Sentence Examples

  • We moored up for the night at Clayhithe, and painted the side of the boat where the new blacking had become scratched.

  • This includes a wide range of tasks from hull blacking to replating a boat.

  • Now at Cowroast Phil has an engineer and a site maintenance man who also does boat blacking and other similar tasks.

  • It means the shiny arc of reflected light on a chrome bumper instead of the smith's blacking on a hammered iron rail.

  • Put to work in 1824 at a blacking factory, a humiliation that was to provide a mainspring for his subsequent ambition.

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Words Starting With

BBLBLA

Words Ending With

GNGING

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