bitter(Noun) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic. bitter(Noun) A type of beer heavily flavored with hops. bitter(Noun) A turn of a cable about the bitts. bitter(Adjective) Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance) The coffee was bitter.
The word chalk comes from the Latin word âcalxâ. We get chalk from limestone. Most of the chalk you find today was made almost 60 to 100 million years ago. It is chemically made of calcium carbonate.
R.L., SUN CITY WEST, ARIZ. Chalkware was made in Pennsylvania from about 1860 to 1890 and reflected both German and Italian artistic traditions. But the term is a misnomer and based merely upon the resemblance of the underlying white ground of the ornamental figures to chalk.