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  • chalk: that's chalk
    [possibly from OED chalk mark or score made with chalk in various games, i.e. something is so firmly planned that it
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  • chairman
    n. the master of ceremonies of a church fundraising CONCERT, who announces hymns and the running total of donations, and in some places
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  • chain moray
    n. an eel, Echidna catenata: 1968 (Böhlke 87). (San Sal.)
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  • chain of love
    ["Its pink, heart-shaped blossoms can be stuck together" (Higgs p.c.)] n. a vine, Antigonon leptopus: 1956 (Higgs 69). (Exuma)
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  • chack
    See CHOCK.
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  • cerasee
    /sérasiy/, sorasee /sóhrasiy/ [W Car.; "etym. unknown—poss. fr. Fr. céracé waxy, but. cf. Twi nsuró a climbing vine" DJE] n. a vine, Momordica
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  • centipee
    /sénapiy/ [Atlantic; cf. also US dial. South santy fay, Santer fee ADD, santapee (Ayres 1950:77); OED "centipie, centapee in W. Indies
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  • Celia cassava
    /síylya kasáva/ n. a variety of cassava. (Andros)
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  • ceiling
    [cf. OED, 1784 "Between the inside lining of tile ship's bottom, which is called the ceiling, and the outside planking, there
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  • ceement
    /síyment/ [US dial. South, Black idem ADD] n. cement: The ceement for our house already done hard, so it ain't no more
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