marking (action of making a mark); mark, marking (the sign marked); marking (coloration of an animal); marking (action of e.g. marking a page); branding (e.g. of cattle)
to mark, mark down (to add a mark or a spot to something); to mark (to place a mark in something as a reminder); to brand (brandish someone's skin with a mark); to mark (to feature as a highlight of something); to score (e.g. a point or a goal)
feral, maroon (that has become wild again (used of a slave or animal who has returned to a free or wild state)); wild (to qualify a wild alternative for a cultivated plant or domestic animal); illicit, crooked (of professions)
chestnut tree; horse-chestnut tree; old chestnut (A news item which, like chestnut fruits, tends to come back every year at the same time. Implies that the news is a fill-in, that might as well have been written in advance.)