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▪ I. † ˈcheck-stone1 Obs. or dial.
Also 7 chacke-.
[Of uncertain origin: the dial. synonym checkers appears to show connexion with check n.1; this is strengthened by the occasional use of chess, chesses, for tesseræ, also for ἀστράγαλοι or ankle-bones, used as dice, and also in the game of ‘dibs’ or ‘knuckle-bones’: perhaps the stones were substituted for the bones, and named from them. In Scotl. called chucks or chuckie-stones.]
A small smooth round pebble; a children's game played with these. Also fig.
1587Golding De Mornay xviii. 287 Yoong children, which set al their felicitie in Checkstones and pins. 1599Nashe Lent. Stuffe 44 Shee [Hero] dreamed that Leander and shee were playing at checkestone with pearles in the bottome of the sea. 1611Cotgr., Cailleteau, a chackestone, or little flint stone. 1624F. White Repl. Fisher 389 Romists..in their Checkstone trickes of beades. 1646G. Daniel Wks. (1878) I. 11 Some At Check-stones play'd, or Cherry-pit. 1666–7Denham Direct. Paint. i. xviii, But for triumphant Check-stones if, and shell For Dutchess Closet, 't hath succeeded well. 1883Easther Gloss. of Almondb. & Huddersf. Checkstone..a game played by children, similar to the dibs of the south and the talus of the Romans. [See full account.]
▪ II. ˈcheck-stone2
[Cf. check n.4, chack n. 3, stone-chacker.]
A local name of the Stone-chat.
1802G. Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1833) 82. |