What is "chequer"

Usage examples of "chequer".

The Ashbys had had the same bedrooms at the Chequers for the night of the Bures Show since the days of William Ashby the Seventh: he who had joined the Westover Fencibles to resist the expected invasion of Napoleon the First.

He looked out over a small valley, pasture and ploughland alternating in chequers, parted by hedges and great bushy trees.

I had a wash, shave, and breakfast at the Chequers Hotel, and then went to the police.

Their gay and noiseless movement as they glance through the air, crossing each other in chequered maze, is very beautiful.

The bay itself is the tenderest blue-green, and on the rolling plain which borders it lies intense sunlight chequered with moving shadows which wander eastwards.

Naccaro mopped his brow, put away his large chequered handkerchief, and sat down again.

Oft in the lone churchyard at night I've seen, By glimpse of moonlight chequering through the trees, A schoolboy with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up And lightly tripping o'er the long, flat stones With nettles skirted and with moss o'ergrown That tell in homely phrase who lies below.

In the course of his chequered career he had been one of Chicago's star torpedoes, until a spot of trouble that could not be squared had forced him to jump the Canadian border and thence remove himself from the American continent.

Yet the chequering of the board is not essential to the game of chess.

A gleam of sun shining through the unsashed window, and chequering the dark workshop with a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart.

The translucent and shining waters of the calm sea covered fragments of old Roman villas, which were interlaced by sea-weed, and received diamond tints from the chequering of the sun-beams.

It will be seen that the pieces A and C have each twenty chequers, and are therefore of equal area.

It will be seen that the piece D contains fifty-two chequers, and this is the largest piece that it is possible to preserve under the conditions.

Solely within the walls of the Chequers lay his world, that inn having been acquired by his great-grandfather as far back as the year 1667, when the jovial Stuart King sat on the English throne, and the Hanoverian Electors were not yet dreamed of.

And if, when sundry Whig gentlemen halted at the Chequers on their way to the coast, and, calling for a bottle of Rhenish, bade him toss down a glass himself with a health to his Majesty, again who shall blame Mr.