chequer
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 21
- Words With Friends
- 22
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of chequer
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- The edible fruit of the wild service tree, Sorbus torminalis.
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noun
- The edible fruit of the wild service tree, Sorbus torminalis.
- (UK, alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of checker.
verb
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(UK, alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of checker.
“Our minds are, as it were, chequered with truth and falsehood.”
“A gleam of sun shining through the unsashed window, and chequering the dark workshop with a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart.”
name
- A surname.
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Etymology
See checker. (fruit): Apparently in allusion to the chequered or spotted appearance of the fruit. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “the surmises that chequer may be a corruption of choker, and that ‘choker’ may once have been the name, are gratuitous.”
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