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One who checks or verifies something.

One who makes a check mark.

The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.

Example: There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow.

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.

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.

The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis

The edible fruit of the wild service tree, Sorbus torminalis.