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Definition of Checkers

1. Noun. A checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces.

Definition of Checkers

1. n. pl. A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.

Definition of Checkers

1. Noun. (board games US singular) A game for two players played on a chessboard; the players have 12 pieces each, and the object is to capture all the opponent’s pieces by jumping over them. Other European varieties have larger boards and more playing pieces. ¹

2. Noun. (plural of checker) ¹

3. Noun. (board games US plural) the playing pieces in the game of checkers. ¹

4. Verb. (third-person singular of checker) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Checkers

1. checker [v] - See also: checker

Lexicographical Neighbors of Checkers

Literary usage of Checkers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Wharf Management, Stevedoring and Storage by Roy Samuel MacElwee, Thomas Rothwell Taylor (1921)
"The working hours for checkers (May, 1919), or tally clerks, are from 8 AM to 5 PM, with an hour for lunch, six days a week, for which they receive $5 a day ..."

2. The American Hoyle: Or, Gentleman's Hand-book of Games, Containing All the by William Brisbane Dick (1894)
"$3.00 Anderson's checkers. Containing complete Instructions and Rules for playing checkers or Draughts. Illustrated with Diagrams ; including all the ..."

3. Women and the Trades, Pittsburgh, 1907-1908 by Elizabeth Beardsley Butler (1909)
"It was not the work of a moment to find women who could act as checkers, ... The first women checkers were made so miserable by their co-workers that they ..."

4. Boys' Own Book: A Complete Encyclopedia of Athletic, Scientific, Outdoor and by William Clarke (1881)
"checkers \aa good game, though certainly inferior in variety and complication of moves to ... checkers or Draughts is played on an ordinary chessboard, ..."

5. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"checkers: The checker receives a copy of all rolling orders and checks each item for size and pieces ordered. ..."

6. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"The average output of checkers from the mill is 800 barrels. It has been as high as 1000 and down to 600, but 800 is the average. ..."

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