crafts people might know it too, since in the old days,(ie, 1960's) to transfer a design, you would pin-prick it, lay it over the the paper (wood/cloth/whatever material) and pounce it with chalk.. you made the pounce by filling the toe of old sock with colored chalk, --which was readily available .---just as meaning #2 indicates..
you could also buy pounce eggs--about the size of pin cushion, they could be refilled with colored powdered chalk. the pounce eggs had small handles, that screwed off --to open the egg to refill it. you used the handle to pounce the egg on the pinpricked paper.

as kids we also made halloween trick or treat pounces, out of large sticks of chalk, broken up, and put into a toe of on old sock.. you pulverized the chalk by getting cars to run over it, and by beating it against concrete..

when denied candy, kids would 'retaliate' by knocking again, with the pounce.. a chalk cover door meant, 'don't even bother'.


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