CHEQUERS

Date "CHEQUERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Chequers A public-house sign. In England without doubt the arms of Fitzwarren, the head of which house, in the days of the Henrys, was invested with the power of licensing vintners and publicans, may have helped to popularise this sign, which indicated that the house was duly licensed; but the sign has been found on houses in exhumed Pompeii, and probably referred to some game, like our draughts, which might be indulged in on the premises. Possibly in some cases certain public-houses were at one time used for the payment of doles, etc., and a chequer-board was provided for the purpose. In such cases the sign indicated the house where the parish authorities met for that and other purposes. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Metallurgy	Filling of refractory brickwork in a hot-blast stove. designed to give a high degree of heat transfer. Source: European Union. (references)
Transportation	An arrangement of different colours, usually black and white or red white, arranged in alternate squares in the pattern of a chess-board. This arrangement is used in some countries as an additional distinguishing character for buoys. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: CHEQUERS

Specialty definitions using "CHEQUERS": Hob Nob ♦ Public-house Signs. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Chequers Manoeuvre (1968)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"CHEQUERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 57.75% of the time. "CHEQUERS" is used about 71 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	57.75%	41	53,521
Noun (proper)	42.25%	30	63,341
Total	100.00%	71	N/A

Expression using "CHEQUERS": chinese chequers. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "CHEQUERS": chequers-board.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "CHEQUERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shah (check, chess, shah). (various references)

Bulgarian		карирана материя (checker, checkers), дама (checkers, draughts, gentlewoman, hopscotch, lady, partner, picture card, queen). (various references)

Czech		dáma (checkers, Dame, draught-board, draughts, lady). (various references)

Danish		skakbrædtmønster (check). (various references)

Dutch		dambord (check). (various references)

French		ruchage (checkers), damier (check, checkerboard, chess board). (various references)

German		Schachbrettmuster (check). (various references)

Hungarian		dámajáték (checkers, draughts). (various references)

Italian		scacchiera (chess board, chessboard, draughtboard), quadrettatura (check). (various references)

Pig Latin		equerschay

Russian		шахматная доска (checkerboard, checkers, chessboard, chess-board), шашки (checkers, draught, draughts). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		igra dame (checkers). (various references)

Spanish		señoras (ladies), damero (check), damas (checkers, draughts, ladies, madams), ajedrezados (check). (various references)

Swedish		kinaschack (chinese chequers). (various references)

Ukrainian		шотландка (caledonian, plaid, schottische, scotchwoman, scotswoman, tartan), шахівниця (checkerboard, chess-board), картата тканина. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "CHEQUERS": exchequers. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-q-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: chequer, cheques, euchres.
	-2 letters: cereus, ceruse, cheers, cheque, creesh, euchre, queers, recuse, rescue, ruches, rushee, secure.
	-3 letters: ceres, cheer, cruse, crush, cures, curse, eches, ecrus, heres, queer, qursh, reuse, ruche, scree, sheer, sucre, usher.
	-4 letters: cees, cere, crus, cues, cure, curs, eche, ecru, ecus, here, hers, hues, recs, rees, resh, rhus, rues, ruse, rush.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-q-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: quenchers, squelcher.
	+2 letters: exchequers, squelchers, squelchier.
	+5 letters: squirearchies.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
chequers	18
chequers restaurant	6
chequers of kensington	6
bar chequers grill	4
chequers hotel	3
atlanta chequers restaurant	3
atlanta chequers	3
apartment chequers	3
chequers inn	2
chequers chinese	2
chequers seafood	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

CHEQUERS

Specialty Definition: CHEQUERS

Crosswords: CHEQUERS

Modern Usage: CHEQUERS

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Usage Frequency: CHEQUERS

Expressions: CHEQUERS

Frequency of Internet Keywords: CHEQUERS

Modern Translation: CHEQUERS

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