[
UK
/tʃˈɛkɐ/
]
VERB
- variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns
- mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on
NOUN
- one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers
How To Use chequer In A Sentence
- The Chancellor of the Exchequer appears to have carried the Cabinet in his opposition to such a step.
- He perceived they were entering the great theatre of his first appearance, the great theatre he had last seen as a chequer-work of glare and blackness in his flight from the red police. When the Sleeper Wakes
- His personal life has been chequered. Times, Sunday Times
- If this were not so, everything would look flat, and then one could distinguish nothing save only a chequerwork of colours. Albert Durer
- He has on the back of his stone a shield with nine rows of chequers; over the top of the shield is a mascle between two keys fesswise, bits inwards and downwards.
- In short, this Budget, which did not correspond with the magniloquent speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, could not stand.
- Baroness Thatcher survived by taking 20-minute catnaps - a 'zizz', she called it - in the day and catching up on sleep at weekends at Chequers. Home | Mail Online
- Moreover the chancellor of the exchequer saw before him an inevitable addition of ten millions of pounds sterling to his budget, the only avowable reason for which was the rectification of the Canadian frontier. Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII
- The Chancellor of the Exchequer will take the floor for his Budget speech at 3.00 p.m.
- My chequer tolled me sew. posted by Heo at 6:27 AM Friday (-ish) Poetry Blogging: 100th Post Edition
