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1  [chek-er]
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–noun
1. a small, usually red or black disk of plastic or wood, used in playing checkers.
2. checkers,
a. Also called, British, draughts. (used with a singular verb) a game played by two persons, each with 12 playing pieces, on a checkerboard.
b. (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.
Also, British, chequer.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME checker chessboard < AF escheker (by aphesis), equiv. to eschec check + -er -er 2
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check⋅er

2  [chek-er]
–noun
1. a person or thing that checks.
2. a cashier, as in a supermarket or cafeteria.
3. a person who checks coats, baggage, etc.
Origin:
1525–35; check 1 + -er 1
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check·er   (chěk'ər)   
n.  
    1. One, such as an inspector or examiner, that checks.
    2. One that receives items for temporary safekeeping or for shipment: a baggage checker.
    3. checkers (used with a sing. verb) A game played on a checkerboard by two players, each using 12 pieces.
    4. One of the round flat pieces used in this game.
    5. A pattern of checks or squares.
    6. One of the squares in such a pattern.
    1. checkers (used with a sing. verb) A game played on a checkerboard by two players, each using 12 pieces.
    2. One of the round flat pieces used in this game.
    3. A pattern of checks or squares.
    4. One of the squares in such a pattern.
    1. A pattern of checks or squares.
    2. One of the squares in such a pattern.
  4. A cashier.
tr.v.   check·ered, check·er·ing, check·ers
  1. To mark with a checked or squared pattern.
  2. To diversify (something) in color, shading, or character; variegate.

[Middle English cheker, chessboard, alteration of escheker, from Old French eschequier, from eschec, check in chess; see check.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Checkers

Check"ers\ (ch[e^]k"[~e]rz), n. pl. [See Checher, v.] A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : checkers
Italian: (gioco della) dama*,
German: das Damespiel,
Japanese: チェッカーのゲーム
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