Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In machinery, the regular release of an obstruction which takes place by means of an even-timed body; an escapement. The wheel and pendulum of an ordinary clock are a common example.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Anything made so as to form
alternate squares like those of acheckerboard .
Etymologies
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check + work
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