chequercheckern.¹

Brit.

/ˈtʃɛkə/, U.S.

/ˈtʃɛkər/

Forms: Middle English chekere, Middle English–1600s cheker, Middle English scheker, Middle English chekyr, chekir, checkere, Middle English chekyre, chekur, chekker(e, chekkare, Scottish chakkere, ( checher), 1500s shekyr, 1600s Scottish chaker, 1600s–1800s checquer, 1500s– checker, Middle English– chequer.

Etymology: Middle English cheker , aphetic < Middle English and Anglo-Norman escheker, < Old French eschekier (= Old Northern French eskekier , Provençal escaquier , Italian scacchiere ) < late Latin scaccārium originally a chessboard, < scacci , scāchi (plural) chess, checkers. Compare check n.², chess n.¹, exchequer n.(Although the spelling checker is historically better supported, and more in accordance with English usage, chequer predominates in current use; of 20 quotations since 1750, 16 have chequer, 2 checquer, 2 checker.)

I. A chessboard and connected senses.

†1.

a. A chessboard; a square board divided into 64 small squares, coloured alternately dark and light. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > chessboard

exchequera1300

chess1303

chequerc1330

quek1376

tablerc1380

chessboard1474

tablier1474

chequerboard1597

chess-table1862

c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 3195 Þe cheker þai oxy & þe meyne; Bifor þe maiden þan pleyen he.

c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 309 A cheker he fond bi a cheire, He asked who wold play.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 11396 Somme..Drowe forthe meyne for þe cheker.

c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 660 Therewith Fortune said, checke here, And mate in the mid point of the checkere.

c1440 Gesta Romanorum xxi. 71 The chekir or the chesse hath viij. poyntes in eche partie.

1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. i. 157 To speke of the forme and of the facion of the chequer.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 71 My trees stande foure square like the Chequer or Chesseboorde.

1645 Bp. J. Hall Remedy Discontentm. viii. 37 Neither should any of his men either stand, or move, if in any other part of that Checker, it might bee in more hope to win.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 155 To finger a man off their enemies' chequer.

b. A square of the board. rare. Cf. 12.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > chessboard > square

pointc1450

house1562

lodging1562

place1562

step1562

square1611

chequer1801

1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. ii. 236 The Polish Game..requires a board with ten squares, or chequers, in each row.

†2.

a. The game of chess. Obsolete.At first only contextual in such phrases as at the chequer, originally = ‘at the chessboard’.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun]

chequer1297

chessc1325

chess-playingc1400

chess-play1481

chests1561

cestes1578

obessea1629

checkmatea1661

chess-game1834

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 192 Wyþ pleyynge at tables, oþer atte chekere.

c1314 Guy Warw. (Caius) 3195 Than at Chequer with the meyne Before that maide pleyden they.

c1330 Florice & Bl. (1857) 351 He wil com the ner And bidde the plaien at the scheker.

1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle i. xxii He that at the cheker pleyeth.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1621 The chekker..The draghtes, the dyse, and oþer dregh gaumes.

†b. A chessman. rare. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > pieces > a piece

chess1303

chequer1474

chessmen1474

piece1562

pin1688

chess man1853

1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. viii. 184 He..dide doo make the forme of chequers of gold and siluer In humayne fygure.

3. plural. The game of draughts. dialect and U.S. See checker n.¹

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > draughts > [noun]

jeu de damesc1380

draughtsc1540

dam1580

checker1712

chequers1838

1838 H. Martineau Retrospect of Western Trav. I. 280 Mr. Webster was playing chequers with his boy.

1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. (E.D.S.) Checquers, the game of draughts.

4. A chessboard as the sign of an inn; hence a generic proper name for a public house.

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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > tavern sign

lion?a1366

ale stake1396

ivy14..

sunc1400

tokenc1440

eagle1449

chequerc1460

wisp?1507

Saracen's head1510

ale-pole1523

bush1532

wine garland1533

ivy-garland1553

tavern-bush1553

lattice1575

ivy-bush1576

alebush1599

red lattice1604

elephanta1616

sagittarya1616

grate1622

wine-bush1638

popinjay1687

c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. l. 13 They toke hir In, and loggit hem..Atte ‘Cheker of the hope’.

1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 183 Now called Chequer lane, or Chequer Alley, of an Inne called the Chequer.

1660 S. Pepys Diary 24 Feb. (1970) I. 66 As far as Foulmer..here we lay at the Chequer.

1797 G. Canning & J. H. Frere Knife-grinder A-drinking at the Chequers.

1843 J. M. Neale Songs & Ballads for People 14 So they're down at the Chequers, and at it once more!

II. The Exchequer.Of the origin of this application of the word various more or less conjectural explanations have been offered: the earliest is that given in the Dialogus de Scaccario or Dialogue concerning the Exchequer, written in 1178 ‘by Richard Bishop of London the Treasurer, son of Bishop Nigel the Treasurer, and great-nephew of the justiciar Roger of Salisbury’ (Stubbs). According to this the scaccarium (chequer or eschequier) of the King was a quadrangular table, covered with a black cloth marked with transverse lines a foot or a palm apart, and having ‘calculi’ in the spaces; it was presumed to be so called from its likeness to a chequer or chessboard.

†5. The table which gave its name to the King's Exchequer; any table for accounts, a counter. Obsolete.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > table

chequer1178

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > counter

chequer1178

counterc1369

counting-boardc1440

counting-tablec1440

Flanders counter1534

accounting table1649

table counter1667

1178 Dial. de Scaccario in Madox Exchequer App. Scaccarium tabula est quadrangula. Superponitur autem scaccario superiori pannus niger virgis distinctus, distantibus a se virgis vel pedis vel palmæ extentæ spacio. In spaciis autem calculi sunt..Disc. Quæ est ratio hujus nominis? Mag. Nulla mihi verior ad præsens occurrit, quam quod scaccarii lusilis similem habet formam.

c1237 Roger of Wendover Chron. anno 1231 Sedebant ad scaccarium regis, laicas causas ventilantes.

1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 83 Þai schulle bringe þe Catel & leyn vpon þe cheker bifor þe aldirman.

a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1909) III. 653 The bokes of ij leetes euer next afore shall remayn in the counsell howse..on the shekyr.

1742 R. Cornes in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 42 128 A large Purse..tossed by the two Chamberlains, standing upon the Chequer [a large square Table in Guildhall at Bridgnorth].

†6. The Court of exchequer n. Obsolete.

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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court of exchequer

chequer1178

exchequer1489

exchequer-court1721

1178 Dial. de Scaccario Licet autem tabula talis Scaccarium dicatur, transmutatur tamen hoc nomen ut ipsa quoque Curia qua consedente scaccario est scaccarium dicatur.

c1260 M. Paris Chron. Majora anno 1209 Amotum est scacarium a Westmonasterio usque ad Northamtonam.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 312 His tresorere..Fordos vsages olde, & lawes of þe chekere.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. i. 91 Somme seruen þe kynge and hus seluer tellen, In þe chekkere and þe chauncelrie chalengynge hus dettes.

1423 Sir T. Rokeby in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. ii. 31. I. 98 To comande the Tresorer and Barons of the Cheker of our Lord Kyng to here his Acompt.

1506–7 in Old City Acc. Bk. ( Archæol. Jrnl. XLIII) Thomas Basset presentid them Into the Cheker for takyn of hyme a fynne of iijs. iiijd.

1691 J. Locke Toleration in Wks. (1727) II. 34 Men who..allow high Use as an Encouragement to lending to the Chequer.

a1693 Disc. Tenures in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 58 The Red Book in the Checquer.

†7. transferred. The royal or national treasury of court of account. Obsolete.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > department managing public money

treasuryc1383

exchequera1420

chequer1425

chequer-chambera1513

fiscal1590

fisc1599

fiscus1650

1425 Sc. Acts Jas. I (1597) §49 To make reckoning and giue compt thereof, at the Kingis Checker.

1473 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 48 Dauid Rudeman..passand with preceptis of the parliament and the chekkere on north halue Forth.

1473–4 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 6 b His bill..particulary examinit at the Chakkere.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Macc. x. 44 Expenses shal~be geuen out of the kynges Checker.

1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem (Act. Robt. III) 57 The Schiref sovld compeir in the cheker.

1692 tr. Sallust Wks. 153 You tacitly murmur'd to see the public Chequer robb'd.

†8. A sitting of the Court of Exchequer or similar body. Obsolete.

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c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxiv. 34 The nest Compt, that that Schyrrawe thare Suld gywe, quhan haldyn the chekkare ware.

c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 11 The kingis grace past to Striueling, and thair held his chekker.

1621 First & Second Bk. Discipline (Church of Scotl.) 3 To conveen the time of the next chekker.

†9. transferred and figurative. Treasury. Cf. ‘exchequer’.

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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > of valued things

treasuryc1384

jewel house1549

chequer1597

exchequer1619

chest1662

1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 58 That Nature..made thys place the Chequer of her store.

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes ii. xv. 121 Makes ev'ry purse his Checquer; and, at pleasure, Walks forth and taxes all the world, like Cæsar.

a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods lvii. 28 in Wks. (1640) III If the 'Chequer be emptie, so will be his Head.

†10. ? A room or place for accounts. Obsolete exc. Historical.

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1402–3 Bursar's Roll New Coll. Oxf. (3rd & 4th Hen. IV) (Custos Scaccarii et Librariæ) Item..pro tribus virgatis..de viridi Kersey emptis pro Scaccario et domo compoti.]

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1509/2 The same daye, the King..landed at Calays..His grace was receyued into the checker, and there rested.

c1593 in J. Raine Descr. Anc. Monuments Church of Durham (1842) 81 He had alwaies one tonne of wyne lyinge in the said checker [at Durham], for the use of the sayd Church.

c1670 New Coll. Oxf., Plan of New Building in Garden Quad. Rooms are described as ‘Chequer, and Common Room over it’, ‘Audit House’ [now Bursary] ‘Treasury’, etc.

1887 J. B. Sheppard Literæ Cantuar. (Rolls) I. Introd. 21 The Serjeant of Walworth must have his accounts audited in the Cheker at Canterbury. 104 note, The Cheker or Audit room of the Monastery..is here meant.

†11. ? A checker-roll. Obsolete.

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1467 Ord. Worcester in Eng. Gilds 406 It ys ordeyned..euery citezein of the old cheker pay at this tyme but vijd. and euery citezein of the newe cheker but xiijd.

III. A chequered pattern.

12. plural. Squares or spots like, or suggesting, those of a chessboard.

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1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole vii. 43 Fritillaria. The flower is..spotted in very good order, with fine small checkers.

c1705 G. Berkeley in A. C. Fraser Life & Lett. G. Berkeley (1871) 430 Blew and yellow chequers still diminishing terminate in green.

1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 392 The shadows of the upper boughs..resting in quiet chequers upon the glittering earth.

1872 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce (rev. ed.) 85 The Netherlands are cut into chequers by canals.

13. Marking like that of a chessboard; alternation of colours; chequer-work, chequering.

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the world > matter > colour > variegation > chequered pattern > [noun]

checkingc1440

checkc1450

chequer-work1519

chequer1779

chequerboard1835

checkery1837

quadrille1884

windowpane check1898

Prince of Wales check1935

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > geometric

checkingc1440

checkc1450

chequer-work1519

pane?a1549

diaper-work1602

chevron1605

diapery1631

fret1664

tooth-work1681

polygram1696

chequer1779

reticulum1797

Grecque1832

checkery1837

gammadion1848

diaper1851

key pattern1853

diapering1866

Greek fret1872

rangoli1884

geometric1894

Greek key1897

step pattern1908

Mondrian1964

1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea ii. v. 208 A white ensign, bordered with a checker of blue, yellow, and red.

1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 66 Hill-flowers running wild In pink and purple chequer.

1882 Athenæum No. 2860. 248 The ornaments are more Asiatic than Egyptian: rosettes, chequers, antefixal ornaments, gazelles.

†14. A fabric with a chequered pattern; chequered material; also attributive; cf. checkery n. 2.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > patterned > checked

checkery1420

chequer1542

check1625

1542 Act 33 Hen. VIII in Stat. Irel. (1621) 185 Any hydes, fells, checkers.

1552 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 222 One alter clothe of white Cheker sylk.

1579 in J. C. Jeaffreson Middlesex County Rec. (1886) I. 240 Two hundred and twelve yards of woolen cloth called ‘Checkers’.

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15. Architecture in plural. ‘In masonry, stones in the facings of walls which have all their thin joints continued in straight lines, without interruption or breaking joints’ (Gwilt).

Compounds

†C1. ‘belonging to the exchequer or royal treasury.'

chequer-compt n.

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a1605 A. Montgomerie Lesson how to Die 52 Quhen he [the great Judge] thy checker compt sall craive.

chequer-matter n.

ΚΠ

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 357/1 Certayne bishops..did sit on checker matters belongyng to the king.

chequer-pay n.

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1628 J. Mede Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 283 In Queen Elizabeths days, when nothing on earth was surer than Chequer pay.

chequer-tally n.

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a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 254 And all the Points, like Chequer~tallies suit.

C2. ‘resembling a chessboard in appearance, of a chequered pattern.’

chequer-hedge n.

ΚΠ

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 238 Upon turning one of the cocks at f rises a chequer hedge of water, as they call it.

chequer-faced adj.

ΚΠ

1659 London Chanticleers xii, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) XII. 351 The checker-faced scullion.

chequer-windowed adj.

ΚΠ

1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 253 Low, checker-windowed houses.

C3. Also chequer-chamber n., chequer-work n., etc.

† chequer-bill n. Obsolete a promissory bill issued by the exchequer, an exchequer-bill.

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > other promissory notes or bills

warrant1433

assignmentc1460

policy1623

navy bill1679

redraft1682

tally of pro1691

bank bill1694

bank seal bill1696

chequer-bill1697

assignation1704

chequer-note1705

mint bill1707

transport debenture1707

transport-bill1710

loan-bill1722

treasury note1756

tin bill1778

treasury-bill1798

rescription1800

short bill1808

treasury-warrant1834

sight bill1853

short-paper1912

treasuries1922

T.B.1936

T.D.R.1948

T-Bill1982

1697 London Gaz. No. 3289/4 Lost..a Chequer Bill of 20l. No. 17991.

† chequer-bird n. Obsolete a name of the guinea fowl from its marking.

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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > family Numididae > member of (guinea-fowl)

guinea-hen1599

Guinea1620

turkey1655

pintado1666

chequer-bird1745

tamis-bird1774

guinea fowl1788

Guinea bird1792

galeeny1796

come-back1811

tarentaal1827

tompot1891

1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 20 Abundance of Pintadoes, or Chequer Birds.

chequer-course n. (see quot. 1704).

ΚΠ

1704 Dict. Rusticum at Brick-making Chequer-course is the lower row of Bricks in the Arch.

† chequer-man n. Obsolete a man employed in the exchequer; a man who keeps accounts.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > keeper of accounts

accountera1400

teller1434

countrel?1475

reasoner1509

accountant1539

chequer-man?1577

computist1583

rational1610

actuary1769

account keeper1797

tallyman1857

number cruncher1971

bean-counter1975

society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > one who has charge of or manages money > one who manages public money > specific officials

chamberlain1415

teller1434

under-treasurer1447

treasurer of the king's warsc1450

vice-treasurer1541

chequer-man?1577

Clerk of the Pellsa1603

treasurer at wars1617

fiscal1652

quaestor1673

underteller1694

First Lord of the Treasury1698

Paymaster General1698

melter1758

treasurer1790

First Lord1855

apposer-

?1577 F. T. Debate Pride & Lowlines sig. Evi^v Your cheker man for it doth keepe no chalke.

1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. iv. 134 I have heard many Checkermen say, there never was a better Treasurer.

1667 S. Pepys Diary 20 Feb. (1974) VIII. 74 With the Chequer-men to the ‘Leg’ in King-street, and there had wine for them.

† chequer-note n. Obsolete = chequer-bill n.

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > other promissory notes or bills

warrant1433

assignmentc1460

policy1623

navy bill1679

redraft1682

tally of pro1691

bank bill1694

bank seal bill1696

chequer-bill1697

assignation1704

chequer-note1705

mint bill1707

transport debenture1707

transport-bill1710

loan-bill1722

treasury note1756

tin bill1778

treasury-bill1798

rescription1800

short bill1808

treasury-warrant1834

sight bill1853

short-paper1912

treasuries1922

T.B.1936

T.D.R.1948

T-Bill1982

1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy iii. i Not a penny of money in cash! nor a chequer-note! nor a bank-bill!

1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 336 To stuff the nation with this fine commodity of bank bills and chequer-notes.

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chequercheckerv.

Brit.

/ˈtʃɛkə/, U.S.

/ˈtʃɛkər/

Forms: Middle English chekyr, 1500s cheker, 1600s–1800s checquer, Middle English– checker, 1600s– chequer.

Etymology: Either formed in English < chequer n.¹ chess-board, chess-board pattern; or aphetic < *escheker , < Old French *escheker-er , cited by Godefroy only in past participial eschekeré , eschequeré , checkered, chequered, < eschequier chess-board, checker n.¹; on Latin type *scaccar(i)ātus , < scaccārium . In English also, only chequered adj. is found in early use. Of 100 quotations since 1755, 70 have chequer, 21 checker, 9 checquer.

1. transitive. To divide or mark like a chess-board, in squares of alternately different colours.

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the world > matter > colour > variegation > chequered pattern > chequer [verb (transitive)]

counterchange1614

chequer1633

check1798

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > pattern [verb (transitive)] > geometric

diaperc1400

chevron1543

diaprize1626

chequer1633

dice1694

check1798

herringbone1887

1486 [implied in: Bk. St. Albans, Her. F j They be calde armys chekkerit when they ar made of ij colouris to the maner of a chekker. (at chequered adj. 1)].

1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 58 Mark you the floore? that square and speckled stone, And th' other black and grave, where~with each one Is checker'd all along.

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 228 The other..is checquered brown and black, in half-lozenges.

1833 H. Martineau Messrs. Vanderput & Snoek ii. 24 The wall which enclosed the whole was chequered with blue and white bricks.

2. To divide or partition into squares or sections by crossing lines (without reference to colour). Const. occasionally out.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > divide [verb (transitive)] > into sections or compartments > into squares

checkc1440

chequer1601

1601 A. Munday & H. Chettle Death Earle of Huntington sig. C3 I scourg'd her for her pride, till her faire skinne With stripes was checkred like a vintners grate.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 7 The Gray, or Horse-Fly. Her eye is all latticed or chequered with dimples like Common Flyes.

1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 176 The grotesque branches of the almond trees..fantastically chequered the clear blue sky.

1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. liii. 158 I have seen the rich Louisianian chequering out his cotton and sugar plantations.

1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea (1874) 117.

a. To diversify with a different colour or shade; to variegate, mottle.

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the world > matter > colour > variegation > variegate [verb (transitive)]

chequer?a1400

fleckc1430

engrail1483

shoot1532

begary1538

intermingle1553

enchase1590

diaper1592

sinew1592

motley1602

intercolour1607

damask1610

particolour1610

inshade1613

freta1616

enamel1650

discolour1656

variegatea1728

jasper1799

intershoot1845

patchwork1853

pattern1898

strand1914

harlequin-

?a1400 Morte Arth. 3268 A chayere of chalke-whytte siluer, And chekyrde with charebocle chawngynge of hewes.

1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Ciij^v Rhinoceros..of the coloure of boxe, somwhat variable and as it wer chekered.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. ii. 2 The gray ey'd morne..Checkring the Easterne clouds with streakes of light.

1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. iii. viii. 109 'Tis checker'd with Natural Groves and Savannahs.

1714 J. Gay Araminta in R. Steele Poet. Misc. 89 She saw the Morning Ray Chequer the floor.

1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. ii. vii. 425 Moorish villages..chequering the green slopes.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxvi. 332 To see something..checkering the waste of white snow.

b. absol.

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1743 R. Blair Grave 6 By Glimpse of Moon-shine, chequering thro' the Trees.

†c. to checker in: to usher in by chequering. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 49* The golden wyers that checkers in the day, Infiriour to the tresses of her haire.

a. figurative. To diversify or vary with elements of a different character; to interrupt the uniformity of.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > make varied or diversify [verb (transitive)] > mix or jumble

jumperc1374

jumble1542

hotchpotch1573

shuffle1593

pell-mell1606

chequerc1632

hash1654

hodge-podge1773

check1790

gallimaufry1831

commix1847

c1632 in Athenæum 27 Jan. (1883) 121/2 The other Indians from the East repayre, All which with mingled Germans chequered are, And Flemings white.

1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 28 He is not likely to deal afterward with much Latin; unless it be to checker a Sermon.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 165. ¶4 The Letter was very modishly chequered with this modern Military Eloquence.

1718 Free-thinker No. 30. 2 His Religious System is chequered with Contradictions.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xviii. 36 His sleep was checkered with starts and moans.

1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. i. 5 Nine tolerable days fortunately checkered the uniformity of the heavy weather.

b. Often used of the vicissitudes of life.

ΚΠ

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xvii. 66 This Kings reigne was checquered with variety of fortune.

1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 163 In all the good and ill, that checker life.

1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (rev. ed.) 85 Its tranquil existence..chequered by no vicissitudes.

1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People (1882) iv. §5. 195 A progress..chequered with darker vicissitudes.

5. To arrange or distribute chequer-wise; to intermix chequer-wise.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > other specific arrangements > arrange in other specific manner [verb (transitive)] > other spec.

chequer1677

quincunx1847

echelon1859

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > among other things

interpose1602

intersow1614

intersperse1647

chequer1677

commix1847

intersprinkle1848

thread1884

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > among other things > with things interspersed

intersperse1566

interseam1589

interfuse1593

to strew out1631

chequer1677

punctuate1848

nugget1881

1677 Earl of Orrery Treat. Art of War 191 This method of Checquering my Squadrons in the first Line of the Wing with small Battalions of Pike and Shot.

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 246 The Ocean..intermixing with the Land so as to checquer it into Earth and Water.

1798 Earl St. Vincent in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1845) III. 104 (note) It will be best to chequer them in your Line of Battle two in your Starboard Division..and two in the Larboard.

†6. To put or place alternately. Obsolete. nonce-use (with wordplay).

ΚΠ

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Surrey 81 In the reign of King Henry the Third, when Chancellors were chequered in and out, three times he discharged that office.

†7. To deposit in an exchequer; to treasure up.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > treasury > [verb (transitive)] > place in a treasury

entreasure?a1439

chequer?1605

exchequer?1706

?1605 J. Davies Wittes Pilgrimage sig. N4^v There..Nature Chequers vp all gifts of Grace.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vii. ⁋4 506 For chequering the disbanding Money into the Chamber of London.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	chequer
释义	chequercheckern.¹ Brit. /ˈtʃɛkə/, U.S. /ˈtʃɛkər/ Forms: Middle English chekere, Middle English–1600s cheker, Middle English scheker, Middle English chekyr, chekir, checkere, Middle English chekyre, chekur, chekker(e, chekkare, Scottish chakkere, ( checher), 1500s shekyr, 1600s Scottish chaker, 1600s–1800s checquer, 1500s– checker, Middle English– chequer. Etymology: Middle English cheker , aphetic < Middle English and Anglo-Norman escheker, < Old French eschekier (= Old Northern French eskekier , Provençal escaquier , Italian scacchiere ) < late Latin scaccārium originally a chessboard, < scacci , scāchi (plural) chess, checkers. Compare check n.², chess n.¹, exchequer n.(Although the spelling checker is historically better supported, and more in accordance with English usage, chequer predominates in current use; of 20 quotations since 1750, 16 have chequer, 2 checquer, 2 checker.) I. A chessboard and connected senses. †1. a. A chessboard; a square board divided into 64 small squares, coloured alternately dark and light. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > chessboard exchequera1300 chess1303 chequerc1330 quek1376 tablerc1380 chessboard1474 tablier1474 chequerboard1597 chess-table1862 c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 3195 Þe cheker þai oxy & þe meyne; Bifor þe maiden þan pleyen he. c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 309 A cheker he fond bi a cheire, He asked who wold play. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 11396 Somme..Drowe forthe meyne for þe cheker. c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 660 Therewith Fortune said, checke here, And mate in the mid point of the checkere. c1440 Gesta Romanorum xxi. 71 The chekir or the chesse hath viij. poyntes in eche partie. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. i. 157 To speke of the forme and of the facion of the chequer. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 71 My trees stande foure square like the Chequer or Chesseboorde. 1645 Bp. J. Hall Remedy Discontentm. viii. 37 Neither should any of his men either stand, or move, if in any other part of that Checker, it might bee in more hope to win. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 155 To finger a man off their enemies' chequer. b. A square of the board. rare. Cf. 12. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > chessboard > square pointc1450 house1562 lodging1562 place1562 step1562 square1611 chequer1801 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. ii. 236 The Polish Game..requires a board with ten squares, or chequers, in each row. †2. a. The game of chess. Obsolete.At first only contextual in such phrases as at the chequer, originally = ‘at the chessboard’. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] chequer1297 chessc1325 chess-playingc1400 chess-play1481 chests1561 cestes1578 obessea1629 checkmatea1661 chess-game1834 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 192 Wyþ pleyynge at tables, oþer atte chekere. c1314 Guy Warw. (Caius) 3195 Than at Chequer with the meyne Before that maide pleyden they. c1330 Florice & Bl. (1857) 351 He wil com the ner And bidde the plaien at the scheker. 1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle i. xxii He that at the cheker pleyeth. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1621 The chekker..The draghtes, the dyse, and oþer dregh gaumes. †b. A chessman. rare. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > pieces > a piece chess1303 chequer1474 chessmen1474 piece1562 pin1688 chess man1853 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. viii. 184 He..dide doo make the forme of chequers of gold and siluer In humayne fygure. 3. plural. The game of draughts. dialect and U.S. See checker n.¹ ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > draughts > [noun] jeu de damesc1380 draughtsc1540 dam1580 checker1712 chequers1838 1838 H. Martineau Retrospect of Western Trav. I. 280 Mr. Webster was playing chequers with his boy. 1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. (E.D.S.) Checquers, the game of draughts. 4. A chessboard as the sign of an inn; hence a generic proper name for a public house. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > tavern sign lion?a1366 ale stake1396 ivy14.. sunc1400 tokenc1440 eagle1449 chequerc1460 wisp?1507 Saracen's head1510 ale-pole1523 bush1532 wine garland1533 ivy-garland1553 tavern-bush1553 lattice1575 ivy-bush1576 alebush1599 red lattice1604 elephanta1616 sagittarya1616 grate1622 wine-bush1638 popinjay1687 c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. l. 13 They toke hir In, and loggit hem..Atte ‘Cheker of the hope’. 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 183 Now called Chequer lane, or Chequer Alley, of an Inne called the Chequer. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 24 Feb. (1970) I. 66 As far as Foulmer..here we lay at the Chequer. 1797 G. Canning & J. H. Frere Knife-grinder A-drinking at the Chequers. 1843 J. M. Neale Songs & Ballads for People 14 So they're down at the Chequers, and at it once more! II. The Exchequer.Of the origin of this application of the word various more or less conjectural explanations have been offered: the earliest is that given in the Dialogus de Scaccario or Dialogue concerning the Exchequer, written in 1178 ‘by Richard Bishop of London the Treasurer, son of Bishop Nigel the Treasurer, and great-nephew of the justiciar Roger of Salisbury’ (Stubbs). According to this the scaccarium (chequer or eschequier) of the King was a quadrangular table, covered with a black cloth marked with transverse lines a foot or a palm apart, and having ‘calculi’ in the spaces; it was presumed to be so called from its likeness to a chequer or chessboard. †5. The table which gave its name to the King's Exchequer; any table for accounts, a counter. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > table chequer1178 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > counter chequer1178 counterc1369 counting-boardc1440 counting-tablec1440 Flanders counter1534 accounting table1649 table counter1667 1178 Dial. de Scaccario in Madox Exchequer App. Scaccarium tabula est quadrangula. Superponitur autem scaccario superiori pannus niger virgis distinctus, distantibus a se virgis vel pedis vel palmæ extentæ spacio. In spaciis autem calculi sunt..Disc. Quæ est ratio hujus nominis? Mag. Nulla mihi verior ad præsens occurrit, quam quod scaccarii lusilis similem habet formam. c1237 Roger of Wendover Chron. anno 1231 Sedebant ad scaccarium regis, laicas causas ventilantes. 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 83 Þai schulle bringe þe Catel & leyn vpon þe cheker bifor þe aldirman. a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1909) III. 653 The bokes of ij leetes euer next afore shall remayn in the counsell howse..on the shekyr. 1742 R. Cornes in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 42 128 A large Purse..tossed by the two Chamberlains, standing upon the Chequer [a large square Table in Guildhall at Bridgnorth]. †6. The Court of exchequer n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court of exchequer chequer1178 exchequer1489 exchequer-court1721 1178 Dial. de Scaccario Licet autem tabula talis Scaccarium dicatur, transmutatur tamen hoc nomen ut ipsa quoque Curia qua consedente scaccario est scaccarium dicatur. c1260 M. Paris Chron. Majora anno 1209 Amotum est scacarium a Westmonasterio usque ad Northamtonam. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 312 His tresorere..Fordos vsages olde, & lawes of þe chekere. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. i. 91 Somme seruen þe kynge and hus seluer tellen, In þe chekkere and þe chauncelrie chalengynge hus dettes. 1423 Sir T. Rokeby in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. ii. 31. I. 98 To comande the Tresorer and Barons of the Cheker of our Lord Kyng to here his Acompt. 1506–7 in Old City Acc. Bk. ( Archæol. Jrnl. XLIII) Thomas Basset presentid them Into the Cheker for takyn of hyme a fynne of iijs. iiijd. 1691 J. Locke Toleration in Wks. (1727) II. 34 Men who..allow high Use as an Encouragement to lending to the Chequer. a1693 Disc. Tenures in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 58 The Red Book in the Checquer. †7. transferred. The royal or national treasury of court of account. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > department managing public money treasuryc1383 exchequera1420 chequer1425 chequer-chambera1513 fiscal1590 fisc1599 fiscus1650 1425 Sc. Acts Jas. I (1597) §49 To make reckoning and giue compt thereof, at the Kingis Checker. 1473 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 48 Dauid Rudeman..passand with preceptis of the parliament and the chekkere on north halue Forth. 1473–4 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 6 b His bill..particulary examinit at the Chakkere. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Macc. x. 44 Expenses shal~be geuen out of the kynges Checker. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem (Act. Robt. III) 57 The Schiref sovld compeir in the cheker. 1692 tr. Sallust Wks. 153 You tacitly murmur'd to see the public Chequer robb'd. †8. A sitting of the Court of Exchequer or similar body. Obsolete. ΚΠ c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxiv. 34 The nest Compt, that that Schyrrawe thare Suld gywe, quhan haldyn the chekkare ware. c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 11 The kingis grace past to Striueling, and thair held his chekker. 1621 First & Second Bk. Discipline (Church of Scotl.) 3 To conveen the time of the next chekker. †9. transferred and figurative. Treasury. Cf. ‘exchequer’. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > of valued things treasuryc1384 jewel house1549 chequer1597 exchequer1619 chest1662 1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 58 That Nature..made thys place the Chequer of her store. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes ii. xv. 121 Makes ev'ry purse his Checquer; and, at pleasure, Walks forth and taxes all the world, like Cæsar. a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods lvii. 28 in Wks. (1640) III If the 'Chequer be emptie, so will be his Head. †10. ? A room or place for accounts. Obsolete exc. Historical. ΚΠ 1402–3 Bursar's Roll New Coll. Oxf. (3rd & 4th Hen. IV) (Custos Scaccarii et Librariæ) Item..pro tribus virgatis..de viridi Kersey emptis pro Scaccario et domo compoti.] 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1509/2 The same daye, the King..landed at Calays..His grace was receyued into the checker, and there rested. c1593 in J. Raine Descr. Anc. Monuments Church of Durham (1842) 81 He had alwaies one tonne of wyne lyinge in the said checker [at Durham], for the use of the sayd Church. c1670 New Coll. Oxf., Plan of New Building in Garden Quad. Rooms are described as ‘Chequer, and Common Room over it’, ‘Audit House’ [now Bursary] ‘Treasury’, etc. 1887 J. B. Sheppard Literæ Cantuar. (Rolls) I. Introd. 21 The Serjeant of Walworth must have his accounts audited in the Cheker at Canterbury. 104 note, The Cheker or Audit room of the Monastery..is here meant. †11. ? A checker-roll. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1467 Ord. Worcester in Eng. Gilds 406 It ys ordeyned..euery citezein of the old cheker pay at this tyme but vijd. and euery citezein of the newe cheker but xiijd. III. A chequered pattern. 12. plural. Squares or spots like, or suggesting, those of a chessboard. ΚΠ 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole vii. 43 Fritillaria. The flower is..spotted in very good order, with fine small checkers. c1705 G. Berkeley in A. C. Fraser Life & Lett. G. Berkeley (1871) 430 Blew and yellow chequers still diminishing terminate in green. 1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 392 The shadows of the upper boughs..resting in quiet chequers upon the glittering earth. 1872 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce (rev. ed.) 85 The Netherlands are cut into chequers by canals. 13. Marking like that of a chessboard; alternation of colours; chequer-work, chequering. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > chequered pattern > [noun] checkingc1440 checkc1450 chequer-work1519 chequer1779 chequerboard1835 checkery1837 quadrille1884 windowpane check1898 Prince of Wales check1935 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > geometric checkingc1440 checkc1450 chequer-work1519 pane?a1549 diaper-work1602 chevron1605 diapery1631 fret1664 tooth-work1681 polygram1696 chequer1779 reticulum1797 Grecque1832 checkery1837 gammadion1848 diaper1851 key pattern1853 diapering1866 Greek fret1872 rangoli1884 geometric1894 Greek key1897 step pattern1908 Mondrian1964 1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea ii. v. 208 A white ensign, bordered with a checker of blue, yellow, and red. 1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 66 Hill-flowers running wild In pink and purple chequer. 1882 Athenæum No. 2860. 248 The ornaments are more Asiatic than Egyptian: rosettes, chequers, antefixal ornaments, gazelles. †14. A fabric with a chequered pattern; chequered material; also attributive; cf. checkery n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > patterned > checked checkery1420 chequer1542 check1625 1542 Act 33 Hen. VIII in Stat. Irel. (1621) 185 Any hydes, fells, checkers. 1552 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 222 One alter clothe of white Cheker sylk. 1579 in J. C. Jeaffreson Middlesex County Rec. (1886) I. 240 Two hundred and twelve yards of woolen cloth called ‘Checkers’. Categories » 15. Architecture in plural. ‘In masonry, stones in the facings of walls which have all their thin joints continued in straight lines, without interruption or breaking joints’ (Gwilt). Compounds †C1. ‘belonging to the exchequer or royal treasury.' chequer-compt n. ΚΠ a1605 A. Montgomerie Lesson how to Die 52 Quhen he [the great Judge] thy checker compt sall craive. chequer-matter n. ΚΠ 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 357/1 Certayne bishops..did sit on checker matters belongyng to the king. chequer-pay n. ΚΠ 1628 J. Mede Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 283 In Queen Elizabeths days, when nothing on earth was surer than Chequer pay. chequer-tally n. ΚΠ a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 254 And all the Points, like Chequer~tallies suit. C2. ‘resembling a chessboard in appearance, of a chequered pattern.’ a. chequer-hedge n. ΚΠ 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 238 Upon turning one of the cocks at f rises a chequer hedge of water, as they call it. b. chequer-faced adj. ΚΠ 1659 London Chanticleers xii, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) XII. 351 The checker-faced scullion. chequer-windowed adj. ΚΠ 1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 253 Low, checker-windowed houses. C3. Also chequer-chamber n., chequer-work n., etc. † chequer-bill n. Obsolete a promissory bill issued by the exchequer, an exchequer-bill. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > other promissory notes or bills warrant1433 assignmentc1460 policy1623 navy bill1679 redraft1682 tally of pro1691 bank bill1694 bank seal bill1696 chequer-bill1697 assignation1704 chequer-note1705 mint bill1707 transport debenture1707 transport-bill1710 loan-bill1722 treasury note1756 tin bill1778 treasury-bill1798 rescription1800 short bill1808 treasury-warrant1834 sight bill1853 short-paper1912 treasuries1922 T.B.1936 T.D.R.1948 T-Bill1982 1697 London Gaz. No. 3289/4 Lost..a Chequer Bill of 20l. No. 17991. † chequer-bird n. Obsolete a name of the guinea fowl from its marking. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > family Numididae > member of (guinea-fowl) guinea-hen1599 Guinea1620 turkey1655 pintado1666 chequer-bird1745 tamis-bird1774 guinea fowl1788 Guinea bird1792 galeeny1796 come-back1811 tarentaal1827 tompot1891 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 20 Abundance of Pintadoes, or Chequer Birds. chequer-course n. (see quot. 1704). ΚΠ 1704 Dict. Rusticum at Brick-making Chequer-course is the lower row of Bricks in the Arch. † chequer-man n. Obsolete a man employed in the exchequer; a man who keeps accounts. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > keeper of accounts accountera1400 teller1434 countrel?1475 reasoner1509 accountant1539 chequer-man?1577 computist1583 rational1610 actuary1769 account keeper1797 tallyman1857 number cruncher1971 bean-counter1975 society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > one who has charge of or manages money > one who manages public money > specific officials chamberlain1415 teller1434 under-treasurer1447 treasurer of the king's warsc1450 vice-treasurer1541 chequer-man?1577 Clerk of the Pellsa1603 treasurer at wars1617 fiscal1652 quaestor1673 underteller1694 First Lord of the Treasury1698 Paymaster General1698 melter1758 treasurer1790 First Lord1855 apposer- ?1577 F. T. Debate Pride & Lowlines sig. Evi^v Your cheker man for it doth keepe no chalke. 1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. iv. 134 I have heard many Checkermen say, there never was a better Treasurer. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 20 Feb. (1974) VIII. 74 With the Chequer-men to the ‘Leg’ in King-street, and there had wine for them. † chequer-note n. Obsolete = chequer-bill n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > other promissory notes or bills warrant1433 assignmentc1460 policy1623 navy bill1679 redraft1682 tally of pro1691 bank bill1694 bank seal bill1696 chequer-bill1697 assignation1704 chequer-note1705 mint bill1707 transport debenture1707 transport-bill1710 loan-bill1722 treasury note1756 tin bill1778 treasury-bill1798 rescription1800 short bill1808 treasury-warrant1834 sight bill1853 short-paper1912 treasuries1922 T.B.1936 T.D.R.1948 T-Bill1982 1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy iii. i Not a penny of money in cash! nor a chequer-note! nor a bank-bill! 1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 336 To stuff the nation with this fine commodity of bank bills and chequer-notes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2021). chequern.² Etymology: apparently in allusion to the chequered or spotted appearance of the fruit (Britten and Holland). The surmises that chequer may be a corruption of choker, and that ‘choker’ may once have been the name, are gratuitous.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈchequer. dialect. In plural. The fruit or berries of the Wild Service tree, Pyrus torminalis. In singular also the tree: short for chequer-tree, chequer-wood. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > wild service-tree > fruit of chequers1649 1649 N. Culpeper Physicall Directory 281 Services, Checkers called in Suffolk. 1670 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) x. 62 Sorbus, the Service tree (of which there are four sorts) is rais'd of the Chequers or Berries, which being ripe (that is) rotten, about September, may be sown like Beech-Mast. 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Chequer, the service tree. Pyrus torminalis. The fruit is called chequers. 1878 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names At Edenbridge, Kent, it is called ‘Chequer-wood’. 1883 Academy 7 Apr. 242 The bright bunches of red berries with which the Chequer-trees were laden. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2019). chequercheckerv. Brit. /ˈtʃɛkə/, U.S. /ˈtʃɛkər/ Forms: Middle English chekyr, 1500s cheker, 1600s–1800s checquer, Middle English– checker, 1600s– chequer. Etymology: Either formed in English < chequer n.¹ chess-board, chess-board pattern; or aphetic < escheker , < Old French escheker-er , cited by Godefroy only in past participial eschekeré , eschequeré , checkered, chequered, < eschequier chess-board, checker n.¹; on Latin type scaccar(i)ātus , < scaccārium* . In English also, only chequered adj. is found in early use. Of 100 quotations since 1755, 70 have chequer, 21 checker, 9 checquer. 1. transitive. To divide or mark like a chess-board, in squares of alternately different colours. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > chequered pattern > chequer [verb (transitive)] counterchange1614 chequer1633 check1798 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > pattern [verb (transitive)] > geometric diaperc1400 chevron1543 diaprize1626 chequer1633 dice1694 check1798 herringbone1887 1486 [implied in: Bk. St. Albans, Her. F j They be calde armys chekkerit when they ar made of ij colouris to the maner of a chekker. (at chequered adj. 1)]. 1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 58 Mark you the floore? that square and speckled stone, And th' other black and grave, where~with each one Is checker'd all along. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 228 The other..is checquered brown and black, in half-lozenges. 1833 H. Martineau Messrs. Vanderput & Snoek ii. 24 The wall which enclosed the whole was chequered with blue and white bricks. 2. To divide or partition into squares or sections by crossing lines (without reference to colour). Const. occasionally out. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > divide [verb (transitive)] > into sections or compartments > into squares checkc1440 chequer1601 1601 A. Munday & H. Chettle Death Earle of Huntington sig. C3 I scourg'd her for her pride, till her faire skinne With stripes was checkred like a vintners grate. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 7 The Gray, or Horse-Fly. Her eye is all latticed or chequered with dimples like Common Flyes. 1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 176 The grotesque branches of the almond trees..fantastically chequered the clear blue sky. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. liii. 158 I have seen the rich Louisianian chequering out his cotton and sugar plantations. 1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea (1874) 117. 3. a. To diversify with a different colour or shade; to variegate, mottle. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > variegate [verb (transitive)] chequer?a1400 fleckc1430 engrail1483 shoot1532 begary1538 intermingle1553 enchase1590 diaper1592 sinew1592 motley1602 intercolour1607 damask1610 particolour1610 inshade1613 freta1616 enamel1650 discolour1656 variegatea1728 jasper1799 intershoot1845 patchwork1853 pattern1898 strand1914 harlequin- ?a1400 Morte Arth. 3268 A chayere of chalke-whytte siluer, And chekyrde with charebocle chawngynge of hewes. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Ciij^v Rhinoceros..of the coloure of boxe, somwhat variable and as it wer chekered. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. ii. 2 The gray ey'd morne..Checkring the Easterne clouds with streakes of light. View more context for this quotation 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. iii. viii. 109 'Tis checker'd with Natural Groves and Savannahs. 1714 J. Gay Araminta in R. Steele Poet. Misc. 89 She saw the Morning Ray Chequer the floor. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. ii. vii. 425 Moorish villages..chequering the green slopes. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxvi. 332 To see something..checkering the waste of white snow. b. absol. ΚΠ 1743 R. Blair Grave 6 By Glimpse of Moon-shine, chequering thro' the Trees. †c. to checker in: to usher in by chequering. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 49* The golden wyers that checkers in the day, Infiriour to the tresses of her haire. 4. a. figurative. To diversify or vary with elements of a different character; to interrupt the uniformity of. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > make varied or diversify [verb (transitive)] > mix or jumble jumperc1374 jumble1542 hotchpotch1573 shuffle1593 pell-mell1606 chequerc1632 hash1654 hodge-podge1773 check1790 gallimaufry1831 commix1847 c1632 in Athenæum 27 Jan. (1883) 121/2 The other Indians from the East repayre, All which with mingled Germans chequered are, And Flemings white. 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 28 He is not likely to deal afterward with much Latin; unless it be to checker a Sermon. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 165. ¶4 The Letter was very modishly chequered with this modern Military Eloquence. 1718 Free-thinker No. 30. 2 His Religious System is chequered with Contradictions. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xviii. 36 His sleep was checkered with starts and moans. 1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. i. 5 Nine tolerable days fortunately checkered the uniformity of the heavy weather. b. Often used of the vicissitudes of life. ΚΠ 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xvii. 66 This Kings reigne was checquered with variety of fortune. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 163 In all the good and ill, that checker life. 1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (rev. ed.) 85 Its tranquil existence..chequered by no vicissitudes. 1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People (1882) iv. §5. 195 A progress..chequered with darker vicissitudes. 5. To arrange or distribute chequer-wise; to intermix chequer-wise. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > other specific arrangements > arrange in other specific manner [verb (transitive)] > other spec. chequer1677 quincunx1847 echelon1859 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > among other things interpose1602 intersow1614 intersperse1647 chequer1677 commix1847 intersprinkle1848 thread1884 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > among other things > with things interspersed intersperse1566 interseam1589 interfuse1593 to strew out1631 chequer1677 punctuate1848 nugget1881 1677 Earl of Orrery Treat. Art of War 191 This method of Checquering my Squadrons in the first Line of the Wing with small Battalions of Pike and Shot. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 246 The Ocean..intermixing with the Land so as to checquer it into Earth and Water. 1798 Earl St. Vincent in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1845) III. 104 (note) It will be best to chequer them in your Line of Battle two in your Starboard Division..and two in the Larboard. †6. To put or place alternately. Obsolete. nonce-use (with wordplay). ΚΠ a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Surrey 81 In the reign of King Henry the Third, when Chancellors were chequered in and out, three times he discharged that office. †7. To deposit in an exchequer; to treasure up. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > treasury > [verb (transitive)] > place in a treasury entreasure?a1439 chequer?1605 exchequer?1706 ?1605 J. Davies Wittes Pilgrimage sig. N4^v There..Nature Chequers vp all gifts of Grace. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vii. ⁋4 506 For chequering the disbanding Money into the Chamber of London. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.¹1178n.²1649v.?a1400
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