Checker [noun]

They moved toward the door, but there Mr. Spackles paused to look back grandly upon the checker players.

"Now we can sit around the fire after dinner and tell stories," she said, putting away her papers in an old checker-board.

But so fine a house ought to have a better checker-board than a barrel-head, with grains of corn for men.

As he handed them to the checker, he looked casually around.

Another half hour passed, and then he decided to get up and watch one of the checker games that was in progress near him.

Here in this bend you are standing on what was the garden of Jacob Steendam's checker-fronted house.

Over it Prior de Estria raised the scaccarium, or checker-building, the counting-house of the monastery.

The moonlight only came at intervals through the thick foliage, making silver checker-work on the path.

The Wayne man cut off the frantic wriggling of the Nolan checker's finger toward the line in the book.

And he reaches down and pulls a leg out of the checker table.