chalk line

1. 1.

   a chalked string used in the building trades to make a straight line on a vertical surface

   Synonymssnap linesnapline

   Broaderstring

Questions about chalk line

What does chalk line mean?

chalk line means "a chalked string used in the building trades to make a straight line on a vertical surface".

What is another word for chalk line?

Close synonyms include snap line, snapline. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chalk line a common word?

chalk line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.