chequer

noun

1. a small, usually red or black disk of plastic or wood, used in playing checkers.
2. checkers,
   1. Also called, British, draughts.(used with a singular verb)a game played by two persons, each with 12 playing pieces, on a checkerboard.
   2. (in a regenerative furnace) loosely stacked brickwork through which furnace gases and incoming air are passed in turn, so that the heat of the exhaust is absorbed and later transferred to the incoming air.
3. a checkered pattern.
4. one of the squares of a checkered pattern.

verb (used with object)

5. to mark like a checkerboard.
6. to diversify in color; variegate.
7. to diversify in character; subject to alternations: Sorrow and joy have checkered his life.

noun

1. any of the marbles, pegs, or other pieces used in the game of Chinese chequers
2. 1. a pattern consisting of squares of different colours, textures, or materials
   2. one of the squares in such a pattern

verb (tr)

3. to make irregular in colour or character; variegate
4. to mark off with alternating squares of colour

noun, verb

1. the usual US spelling of chequer

noun

2. textiles a variant spelling of chequer (def. 2)
3. US and Canadian any one of the 12 flat thick discs used by each player in the game of checkersAlso called (in Britain and certain other countries): draughtsman

noun mainly US and Canadian

1. a cashier, esp in a supermarket
2. an attendant in a cloakroom, left-luggage office, etc

see checker (n.2).

n.1

mid-13c., “game of chess (or checkers);” c.1300, “a chessboard, board with 64 squares for playing chess or similar games; a set of chessmen” a shortening of Old French eschequier “chessboard; a game of chess,” from Medieval Latin scaccarium (see check (n.)).

Meaning “pattern of squares” is late 14c. Meaning “a man or marker in the game of checkers” is from 1864. British prefers chequer. From late 14c. as “a checked design.” The word had earlier senses of “table covered with checked cloth for counting” (late 12c. in Anglo-Latin), a sense also in Old French (see checker (n.2)).

v.

“to ornament with a checked or chackered design,” late 14c. (implied in checkered), from Old French eschequeré and from checker (n.1). Related: Checkering.

n.2

“table covered with a checked cloth,” specialized sense of checker (n.1), late 14c. (in Anglo-Latin from c.1300); especially a table for counting money or keeping accounts (revenue reckoned with counters); later extended to “the fiscal department of the English Crown; the Exchequer (mid-14c.; in Anglo-Latin from late 12c.).