Definitions
1.NounOne who or that which checks or verifies something.
2.NounOne who makes a check mark.
3.NounThe 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.NounOne who hinders or stops something.
5.NounA playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts), or certain other table games such as backgammon.
6.NounA pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
7.NounAn individual square appearing in such a pattern.
8.VerbTo mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
9.VerbTo develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
10.NounThe fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis