noun
One who or that which checks or verifies something.
One who makes a check mark.
The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
One who hinders or stops something.
noun
A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts), or certain other table games such as backgammon.
A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
An individual square appearing in such a pattern.
verb
(transitive) To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
(intransitive) To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
noun
The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis