checker

• chequer (in certain senses only)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɛkə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɛkɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɛkə(r)

check +‎ -er

checker (plural checkers)

1. One who checks or verifies something.
2. One who makes a check mark.
   • 1989, M. Manfred Fabritius, ‎William Borges, Saving the Savings and Loan

     "Essentially," said a senior vice president of the FHLBB of Dallas, "we were checkers of boxes."

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.

Aphetic from Anglo-Norman escheker (“chessboard”), from Medieval Latin scaccarium, thus ultimately morpheme-for-morpheme cognate to etymology 1.

checker (plural checkers)

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

• checkerboard

• exchequer

A flag with a checker pattern

checker (third-person singular simple present checkers, present participle checkering, simple past and past participle checkered)

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

Alteration of chequer.

checker (plural checkers)

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

• Almost always spelled chequer, because the tree itself is native to areas where that spelling is used, and is pretty much unknown in areas that use the other spelling.

• checkerberry

• recheck

From English to check.

• IPA^(key): /tʃɛ.ke/

checker

1. to check, verify
2. (reflexive, reciprocal, slang) to bump fists

• vérifier
• regarder