checkers

1. One who checks or verifies something.
2. One who makes a check mark.
3. The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.

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

4. One who hinders or stops something.

1. A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts).
2. A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.

noun

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

1. (in the singular) A game for two players played on a chessboard; the players have 12 pieces each, and the object is to capture all the opponent’s pieces by jumping over them. Other European varieties have larger boards and more playing pieces.
2. (in the plural) the playing pieces in the game of checkers.

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