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      checker
      noun
      One who or that which checks or verifies something.
      The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
      A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts), or certain other table games such as backgammon.
      A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
      One who makes a check mark.
      One who hinders or stops something.
      An individual square appearing in such a pattern.
      The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis
      verb
      (transitive) To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
      (intransitive) To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
      Roots
      shahcheck- · Persian · king
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      The word checker breaks down into one root of Persian origin: the root check-, from Persian shah (“king”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.

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