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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Calk \Calk\ (k[a^]lk), v. t. [E. calquer to trace, It caicare to trace, to trample, fr L. calcare to trample, fr calx heel. Cf {Calcarate}.] To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held. [Written also {calque}] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Calque \Calque\, v. t. See 2d {Calk}, v. t. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: calque n : an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language [syn: {loan translation}]
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