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Checker   /tʃˈɛkər/   Listen
noun
Checker  n.  One who checks.


Checker  n.  
1.
A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.
2.
A pattern in checks; a single check.
3.
Checkerwork. Note: This word is also written chequer.


verb
Checker  v. t.  (past & past part. checkered; pres. part. checkering)  
1.
To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.
2.
To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity. "Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood."





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"Checker" Quotes from Famous Books



... The answer came like the crack of a whip. Braithwaite drew himself up with the pride of one who had moved men like pawns across the checker-board of life and death. "The two cases afford no parallel. Ann and Terry have remained in the social stations to which they were born, while I—I stand outside all such ready-made, rule of thumb classifications. ...
— The Kingdom Round the Corner - A Novel • Coningsby Dawson
... the sky was overcast. The southeast trade still held, but the ocean was a checker board ...
— South Sea Tales • Jack London
... island seemed, to the boy, utterly unlike any place he had seen in the tropics. Around Bridgetown, and over two-thirds of the island of Barbados, there is hardly a tree. The ground rises in slow undulations, marked, like a checker-board, with sugar-cane fields. No place could seem more lacking in opportunity for adventures, yet Stuart was to learn to ...
— Plotting in Pirate Seas • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... great room was: a charnel-house filled with the spoil of tombs and temples. The dim light fluttered down from quaint, triangular windows, set with a checker-work of brick-red and saffron-colored panes about a central design, a scarlet heart upon a white star, and within that a black scarabaeus. The white background of the walls threw into relief the angular figures on the frieze, scenes from old Egyptian ...
— The False Gods • George Horace Lorimer
... of the Magazine of Natural History for the present month enables us to checker our sheet with a page or two of facts which will be interesting ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 19, - Issue 549 (Supplementary issue) • Various


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