Checker
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (v. t.) One who checks.
(2): (v. t.) Checkerwork.
(3): (n.) To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity.
(4): (n.) To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.
(5): (v. t.) A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.
(6): (v. t.) A pattern in checks; a single check.
King James Dictionary [2]
1. To variegate with cross lines to form into little squares, like a chess board, by lines or stripes of different colors. Hence, 2. To diversify to variegate with different qualities, scenes, or events.
Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood.
CHECKER, n.
1. One who checks or restrains a rebuker. 2. A chess-board.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
( שְׂבָכָה , Sebakah ´ , 1 Kings 7:17). The original term, thus rendered, is the same as that translated Net-Work in the context, and signifies a Lattice forming the Balustrade surmounting the capitals of columns.
