Checkerboard
['tʃekəbɔːd] or ['tʃɛkɚbɔrd]
Definition
(n.) A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.
Checker: Sabina
Examples
- If you stare at a checkerboard you can see it as black on red, or red on black, as series of horizontal, vertical or diagonal steps which recede or protrude. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- These hundreds of green squares, marked by their black lava walls, make the hills look like vast checkerboards. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Edited by Helen