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