exchequer

Meanings

Noun

• A treasury.
• An available fund of money, especially one for a specific purpose.

Verb

• To proceed against (a person) in the Court of Exchequer.

Origin

• From Middle English escheker, from Anglo-Norman escheker ("chessboard"); from Medieval Latin scaccarium. This is because the cloth on which the exchequer counted money was chequered like a chessboard.