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Meanings of blacking in anglès

portuguès
graxa de sapato
català
betum

A substance used to produce a shiny protective surface on footwear.

        betum
        Usage of blacking in anglès
        1
        He takes pictures of his boat, blacking out background making good effect.
        The new yorker
        2
        Prewitt, a new History professor, has reportedly been blacking out in class.
        The new yorker
        3
        She felt herself swaying, almost blacking out and forced herself to focus.
        Bake sale murder
        4
        Through the kitchen window I could see a woman blacking the stove.
        Parnassus on Wheels
        5
        Maybe his talk about farting and blacking out wasn't just a joke.
        Rogues
        6
        In fact, you will seldom need to use blacking on these parts.
        Things Mother Used to Make / A Collection of Old Time Recipes, S...
        7
        Caird came close to blacking out, and then he felt almost weightless.
        Dayworld Breakup
        8
        I woke up one day on the kitchen floor, after blacking out.
        The Guardian
        9
        I woke up on the kitchen floor one day, after blacking out.
        The Guardian
        10
        He was just on the edge of blacking out from the pain.
        The darkness before the dawn
        11
        With the dollar he bought a box, three brushes, and some blacking.
        McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader
        12
        He said Tom had purposely thrown the bottle of blacking at him.
        Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout; Or, The Speediest Car on th...
        13
        Mrs. Harsanyi noticed that she wore high heavy shoes which needed blacking.
        The Song of the Lark
        14
        He manages, by blacking boots and baking leather pies, to make money.
        The Citizen-Soldier / or, Memoirs of a Volunteer
        15
        Helpless and close to blacking out, he started to shout at them.
        The dark griffin
        16
        Who's going to stop for a moment to read about somebody's blacking?
        All Roads Lead to Calvary
        About this term
        Translations for blacking
        català
        betum
        Blacking through the time
        Blacking across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common
        United States of America
        Common