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chequer US, checker [ˈtʃɛkə] n 1. (Group Games / Chess & Draughts) any of the marbles, pegs, or other pieces used in the game of Chinese chequers 2. a. a pattern consisting of squares of different colours, textures, or materials b. one of the squares in such a pattern vb (tr)
1. to make irregular in colour or character; variegate 2. to mark off with alternating squares of colour See also chequers [chessboard, from Anglo-French escheker,from eschec check] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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our journey lies through dell and dingle, Where the blithe fawn trips by its timid mother, Where the broad oak, with intercepting boughs, Chequers the sunbeam in the green-sward alley--- Up and away Them things as is alvays a-fluctooatin', and gettin' theirselves inwolved somehow or another vith the national debt, and the chequers bill; and all that. |
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