checkering

checkering is the present participle and gerund of checker.

checkering is the alternative form of chequering.

Meaning of checker

checker (third-person singular simple present checkers, present participle checkering, simple past and past participle checkered)

(transitive) To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
- On the other hand, who ever tires of the names of Oldfield, and Bracegirdle, and Woffington? All the flutters of the fans of two centuries, and all the solid merits of bodices and petticoats, come down to us in their names; chequering Covent Garden like chintz, and bringing along with them the...1847, Leight Hunt, Men, Women and Books a Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writing by Leigh Hunt, page 288
(intransitive) To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.

chequering (plural chequerings)

A chequered pattern.
- What awful perspective! while from our sight / With gradual stealth the lateral windows hide / Their Portraitures, their stone-work glimmers, dyed / In the soft chequerings of a sleepy light.1821, William Wordsworth, Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge (The Same)

plural	checkerings

What is checkering the present participle and gerund of?: Checkering is the present participle and gerund of checker.

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