The Collaborative International Dictionary
Checker \Check"er\ (ch[e^]k"[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Checkered (ch[e^]k"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Checkering.] [From OF. eschequier a chessboard, F. ['e]chiquier. See Check, n., and cf. 3d Checker.]
To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.
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To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity.
Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood.
--Addison.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of chequering English) vb. (present participle of checker English)
Usage examples of "checkering".
There were small parks scattered all over the city, squares of green checkering the field of white and gold.
The stubs of the walls gave witness to the half-breed guide’s claim that the Spindle was a manmade wonder, for some were built of the same reddish stone as the spindle and still bore odd patterns, an alteration of checkering and spirals, at once foreign and familiar.
The checkering on the grip and the trigger spur for your middle finger will help you keep it steady.
Black metal steps, gray walls, a checkering of pale squares of opalescent light set in a curious, asymmetrical alm-pattern that seemed at once impersonal and queerly sinister.