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1888 Daily News 26 July 5/5 100 heavy check-blocks were knocked away and the 20,000 tons of logs slid gracefully into the water.

1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) vii. 173 These..helping to stop excessive rotation of the skull are called check ligaments.

1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B4 Curbd with a checkthong, as bigge as a towpenny halter.

1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 693 The check ticket was a card.

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. Check-valve.

1930 Engineering 14 Nov. 627/2 Connected in the feed range immediately before the boiler check valves.

1963 Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) iv. 9 Reflux valve (check valve, deprecated; retaining valve, deprecated), an automatic non-return valve which opens freely to permit fluid to pass in one direction but closes under its own weight when motion ceases or when the fluid commences to flow in a reverse direction.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk I. iv. 79 Common sense thus acts as a check-weight on sophistry.

1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) ix. 151 The reel overran itself, having no check-wheel.

1926 Electr. World 7 Aug. 280 The meter installers soon become very careful about reading meters, and thereby become a check-back on any one who reads the meter later.

1931 G. O. Russell Speech & Voice 6 This has made possible a check-back on acoustic control.

1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing xxviii. 306 Checkbacks had shown that the information was correct.

1892 J. Nasmith Students' Cotton Spinning 276 Two principal faults arising from an imperfect adjustment of the check band.

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. Check-bar, a bar which limits the backward play of the jacks [in a piano-movement].

1872 (title) The Cheque Book of the Chapel Royal (Camden Soc.).

1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 221 Check braces Are for the purpose of checking the motion endways, placed at the four angles of the body and are always of single stripes of leather.

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 8 The latter has generally a check-chain, by which the wheel is pulled up, in order to be out of the way.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 191/1 Check Chain, a chain connecting the car body with its truck.

1896 Strand Mag. 12 325/1 The sliding ways, cradle, and ship..glide down the appointed pathway..until retarded..and finally brought to rest by check-chains..connecting ship and shore.

1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) i. i. iii. 68 It is a tiresome task, and requires some degree of cruelty by means of the check-collar and whip.

1908 Daily Report 7 Feb. 1/4 When the competitors..combine to fleece their customers, the check-cord on their power to run up prices is sometimes more difficult to apply.

1936 Exper. Station Rec. Jan. 112 Brush check dams seem most effective in regions where sandy soils predominate.

1943 J. S. Huxley TVA vi. 30 The building of check-dams..for anti-erosion purposes.

1953 Brit. Commonw. Forest Terminol.: Pt. I (Empire Forestry Assoc.) 25 Check dam, a dam built in a watercourse to prevent or reduce erosion.

1850 J. Chubb On Constr. Locks & Keys 18 A check-lock, with a small key, which throws a hard steel plate over the large key-hole.

1903 Westm. Gaz. 1 Oct. 10/3 The ‘check-locking’ arrangement..ensures that until the movement of a point or signal has been fully completed the lever in the signal-box..is checked... As soon as the signal or point movement..is properly completed, the ‘check-lock’ is electrically removed.

1737–8 Manch. School Reg. (1866) I. 9 Edward Coppock of Manchester, checkman.

1866 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 356 The old checkman came with his lantern to tick off the fares.

1909 Installation News III. 95/1 A very accurately calibrated check meter.

1964 Economist 28 Mar. 1280/1 ‘Check meters’ are used by landlords who have one mains gas or electricity connection, and only one meter.

1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 27 Apr. 1/4 The management..has refused the local union a continuance of the ‘check-off’, which has been in force heretofore.

1922 Tom Mooney's Monthly (San Francisco) Nov. 4/4 The miners were on strike against a cut in wages [and] abolition of the ‘check-off’ system.

1923 J. D. Hackett Labor Terms in Managem. Engin. May Check-Off System, a system whereby initiation fees, fines, and dues of union employees are deducted from their wages by the employer and periodically remitted to the district union organization.

1965 Times 21 May 15/2 The deduction of union dues from pay by employers—the ‘check~off’ as the Americans term it.

1944 Plane Talk Sept. 24 Advancement to radio operator ‘A’ may be earned by..training that must include checkout on several types of multi-engine airplanes.

1956 W. A. Heflin U.S. Air Force Dict. 111/2 Checkout, instruction or training given a pilot to familiarize him with a given aircraft.

1958 Punch 6 Aug. 172/2 Hotel check-out times in America are quite late in the day.

1962 E. Godfrey Retail Selling & Organization xxi. 204 Few people nowadays are unfamiliar with the principle of collecting a basket, selecting the goods required from shelves and taking them to the check-out point.

1964 Times Rev. Industry Mar. 98/2 The latter [store] has no less than 60 check-outs.

1922 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. 20 Sept. 152 A further lot of sheep [can be] placed in the check-pen.

1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. July 7/3 In larger sets of yards one or more of these drafting pens communicate, via a gate, with the check pen(s)... Their purpose is to hold the sheep while they are being checked over for mistakes in drafting and for treatment.

1833 Reg. Instr. Covalry i. 71 The..strap from check-piece to check-piece, under the jaw-bone, is to keep the cavesson back from his eyes.

1940 H. E. Baughman Aviation Dict. 48/1 Check point. (1) A check point is a geographical location on the surface of the land or water, above which the position of an aircraft in flight can be accurately determined by means of visual reference... (2) Radio Range Station when instrument flight is necessary.

1940 J. I. Crump & N. Maul Our Airliners 101 Allentown, the next check point, is twenty-four minutes away.

1950 C. MacInnes To Victors the Spoils i. 48 We were stopped by a Redcap at a check-point.

1959 Oxf. Mag. 26 Feb. 274/2 It is observed that x vehicles pass the various check-points on their way into the city.

1959 Times 15 Apr. 13/2 The Russian stopping of four American lorries at the road check-point at Helmstedt.

1965 Listener 9 Dec. 941/1 I showed our passports at Checkpoint Charlie.

1949 F. Maclean Eastern Approaches ii. iii. 203 Anxiously we asked what we might expect in the way of check posts or road blocks.

1876 J. W. Barry Railway Appliances ii. 58 The extra rail, which is called a check rail, relieves the sideways pressure of the wheels.

1904 Daily Chron. 29 June 4/7 The..railwayman whose foot was wedged in a check-rail in front of an approaching train.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 3 July 5/1 The check-rail..—a rail laid..to minimise the danger of the curve.

1962 D. A. Boreham Narrow Gauge Railway Modelling ii. 20 For this reason the very greatest care should be taken with check-rails.

a1809 T. Holcroft Memoirs (1816) I. xiv. 123 He had shewn himself restive, and..was ridden in a check-rein.

1849 N. P. Willis Rural Lett. vi. 61 We provided for a night's toilet..and, easing off the check reins a couple of holes..we struck into the traveller's trot.

1873 J. G. Holland Arthur Bonnicastle i. 14 The check-rein of his leading horse.

1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. (Gloss.) 215 Check Ring.

1900 G. Ade More Fables 154 He had gone past, on his way to the checkroom.

1905 Springfield Weekly Republican 8 Sept. 5 Making for an inclosure which had every appearance of being a check-room, I lifted my grip upon the counter, and asked the young man behind it to check it for me.

1969 New Yorker 11 Oct. 43/2 In the new checkrooms, there's going to be a marvellous new form of coat-checking.

1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms Check ropes, strong ropes employed to diminish recoil by increasing the frictional resistances.

1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 248 He must have a boy to tend the check-set of the corn-planter.

1886 E. W. Howe Moonlight Boy 102 My friend left his own baggage at a check stand.

1904 F. Lynde Grafters ii. 31 The train was in, and the porter had fetched Loring's handbag from the check-stand.

1961 Progressive Grocer Dec. 54 View over checkstands shows..small..area with plywood walls..showing non-foods on special.

1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone Look at the helmet, with the clean even gap in it, cloven down to the check-strap.

1887 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 508/1 ‘I'll put a check-strap on him, if he won't do it!’ a little chap exclaimed..using a phrase drawn from the training of horses.

1962 Which? Suppl. July 107/2 The door check straps were disintegrating.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) x. 613 Apon the wall, The chak-wachis assemblit all.

1828 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. I. iii. 292 The check-watches..were making their round, and challenging the sentinels.

1885 Weekly Notes 64/2 A check-weigher in a mine.

1887 Times 23 June 9 The rights and duties of the curious, almost unique functionary—the check-weigher, appointed by the men to supervise the employer.

1888 Daily News 16 July 2/4 Matters relating to check-weighmen and the question of rents and wayleaves for getting and carrying coal.