Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the form of checkers; of checkered pattern. Also spelled
chequerwise .
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
chequerwise . - adverb Alternative spelling of
chequerwise .
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Examples
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The lama squatted under the shade of a mango, whose shadow played checkerwise over his face; the soldier sat stiffly on the pony; and Kim, making sure that there were no snakes, lay down in the crotch of the twisted roots.
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Diameter, paued with pure fine marble, poynted fowre square, wrought checkerwise of diuers fashions, and sundrie best fitting coulours: but in many places, by meanes of the ruine of the auncient walke, and olde pillers, broken in peeces and ouergrowne.
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Of old time, our country houses, instead of glass, did use much lattice, and that made either of wicker or fine rifts of oak in checkerwise.
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Of old time, our country houses, instead of glass, did use much lattice, and that made either of wicker or fine rifts of oak in checkerwise.
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The lama squatted under the shade of a mango, whose shadow played checkerwise over his face; the soldier sat stiffly on the pony; and
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Instead of glass there was much lattice, and that made either of wicker or fine rifts of oak in checkerwise, and horn was also used.
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The English had been put in such formation that the squares lay checkerwise.
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When squares are formed checkerwise, cavalry must attack _a flank square_, and not expose itself to a cross-fire by charging an interior one.
A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry
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Have the first rank open; let the second be checkerwise; and let firing against cavalry be the only firing to be executed in line.
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In old country-houses in England, instead of glass for windows, they used wicker, or fine strips of oak disposed checkerwise.
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