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▪ I. checker, n.1|ˈtʃɛkə(r)|
[f. check v.1 + -er1.]
One who checks.
1. A reprover, rebuker, fault-finder; a controller.
1535Coverdale Bible To Rdr. ⁋5 Not as a checker, not as a reprouer or despyser of other mens translacyons. 1611Cotgr., Repreuart, a reprehender, rebuker, reprouer, carper, checker, find fault, controller.
2. One employed to check or control the calculations, accounts, time, or work of others; esp. of collectors of money for others.
1867Morn. Star 9 Sept., A ‘checker’ employed by the proprietors, and not..a passenger. 1869Daily News 30 Oct., Another porter..who told his checker what he had seen. 1883Ibid. 10 Oct. 7/1 A checker in the grocery department of the Army and Navy Co-operative Stores.
3. A person who or a thing which checks, impedes, or retards.
1845Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VI. ii. 548 Checkers or curers of the disease.
▪ II. checker, n.2|ˈtʃɛkə(r)|
Also 8 checkard, -erd.
1. A frequent variant spelling of chequer, q.v., in all senses; esp. in U.S.
2. a. spec. in pl. The game of Draughts. (U.S.)
1712Sewall Letter-Bk. (1886) I. 417 You us'd to Huff him, and humble him at a game of Checkers. 1794A. Ellicott in C. V. Mathews Life & Lett. (1908) 119 We amuse ourselves with playing checkerds. 1825Bro. Jonathan I. 385 They think I go there to play checkers with him. 1888Amer. Humorist 5 May 8/1 In the Social Hall are checkers, chess, dominoes.
b. One of the ‘men’ used in Draughts.
1864in Webster. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit. vi. 88 Out of blocks, thread-spools, cards, and checkers, he will build his pyramid with the gravity of Palladio.
c. Comb. as checker-board, a chess- or draught-board; checker-man = 2 b.
1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 245 They played much at a kind of checker board with glass beads flat on one side. 1883Harper's Mag. Jan. 278/2 He had built up a little tower of checkermen. Ibid. 280/2 [It] made a mouse-trap from a checker-board.
3. pl. (dial.) Pebbles; = check-stones.
1877E. Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Checkers, small stones, pebbles. 1877Holderness Gloss., Chequers, pebbles..They were used in the ancient game of merrils or nine men's morris, in place of the modern pegs, and were moved on the board so as to check the advance of those of the opposite side.
Hence ˈcheckery a. dial., pebble-like: ‘checkery-bits, small lumps of coal’ (N.W. Linc. Gloss.).
▪ III. checker, v.
see the other spelling chequer. |