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Checker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who checks or restrains; a rebuker.

2. A chess-board.

Checker [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To variegate with cross lines; to form into little squares, like a chess board, by lines or stripes of different colors. Hence,

2. To diversify; to variegate with different qualities, scenes, or events.

3. Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood.

Checker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Checker [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who checks.

2. A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.

3. A pattern in checks; a single check.

4. Checkerwork.

Checker-work [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Work varied alternately as to its colors or materials; work consisting of cross lines.

Checkerberries [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Checkerberry [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

Checkerboard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.

Checkered [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.

2. Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc.

Checkered [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Checkering [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Checkers [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A common game on a checkered board.

Checkers [Verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.

Checkerwork [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.

2. Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.