checker

Meanings

Noun

• One who 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.
• A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts).
• A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
• The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa (species), syn. Sorbus terminalis (species)

Verb

• To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
• To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.

Origin

• check + -er
• From Middle English cheker, aphetic from Anglo-Norman escheker ("chessboard"), from Latin scaccarium, thus ultimately morpheme-for-morpheme cognate to etymology 1.
• Alteration of chequer.