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chequee

chequee is the alternative form of cheki.

Meaning of cheki

Noun

cheki (plural chekis)

  1. A Turkish unit of weight equal to 200 kg (441 lbs.).
  2. (historical) A former Turkish unit of weight equal to 180 okas.
  3. (historical) A former Turkish unit of weight equal to 100 dirhems (variously 0.15–0.35 kg).
    • At Constantinople, the cantaro, or quintal, contains 44 okes, or 100 rottoli; and the cantaro weighs about 123¾ lbs. avoirdupois, the oke 2lbs. 13 oz., and the rottolo 19⁴⁄₅ oz., and the chequee 11¼ oz. avoirdupois.1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia, Vol. XXX, s.v. "Rottolo"

Forms of chequee

pluralchequees

Questions about chequee

What is chequee the alternative form of?
Chequee is the alternative form of cheki.

Words near chequee in the dictionary

  1. chequebook
  2. chequebook diplomacies
  3. chequebook diplomacy
  4. chequebook journalism
  5. chequebooks
  6. chequee
  7. chequeen
  8. chequeens
  9. chequees
  10. chequeless
  11. chequer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chequee (page history and authors); cheki (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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