chequer verb trans. ['tʃɛkǝ] Also checker. See also next. LME.
[from CHEQUER noun¹.]
1. Diversify with a different colour or shade; variegate, mottle; break the uniformity of (lit. & fig.). LME.
■ H. Allen Bright golden patches shimmered and chequered the road ahead. fig.:
■ Dickens His sleep was checkered with starts and moans.

2. Divide into or mark with squares, esp. of alternate colours. E17.
■ C. Lucas The other..is checquered brown and black, in half-lozenges.
■ J. Masefield Chequered by tossing boughs the moon appeared.

3. Deposit (money) in an exchequer. E17-M18.

4. Arrange or distribute chequer-wise. L17.

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chequer noun¹. ['tʃɛkǝ] Also checker. ME.
[Aphet. from EXCHEQUER noun.]
I. 1. A chessboard; chess. ME-E19.

2. In pl. (usu. treated as sing.). The game of draughts. dial. & N. Amer. E18.
b. In full checkerman. A piece in the game of draughts. N. Amer. M19.

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chequer(1)
II.
3. The Court of Exchequer. ME-L17.

4. The royal or national treasury. LME-L17.

5. A room, place, or table for accounts. obsolete exc. Hist. LME.

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chequer(1)
III.

6. A pattern made in squares, or with alternating colours. LME.

7. In pl. Squares or spots like or suggesting those which make up the design of a chessboard; rare the squares of an actual chessboard. E16.

Comb.:
checkerman: see sense 2b above; chequer-board (the pattern of) a board for draughts or chess; chequer-wise adverb in the pattern of a chessboard; chequer-work work of a chequered pattern.

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chequer noun². ['tʃɛkǝ] dial. Also checker. M17.
[App. = CHEQUER noun¹, from their appearance.]
In pl. The berries of the wild service tree. Cf. CHECKERBERRY.

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