Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.
2.
Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.
How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man.
- De Foe.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
References in classic literature
She often says, when the letter is first opened, `Well, Hetty, now I think you will be put to it to make out all that checkerwork' don't you, ma'am?And then I tell her, I am sure she would contrive to make it out herself, if she had nobody to do it for her every word of itI am sure she would pore over it till she had made out every word.
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