1. A reprover, rebuker, fault-finder; a controller.
1535. Coverdale, Bible, To Rdr. ¶ 5. Not as a checker, not as a reprouer or despyser of other mens translacyons.
1611. Cotgr., Repreuart, a reprehender, rebuker, reprouer, carper, checker, find fault, controller.
2. One employed to check or control the calculations, accounts, time or work of others; esp. of collectors of money for others.
1867. Morn. Star, 9 Sept. A ‘checker’ employed by the proprietors, and not … a passenger.
1869. Daily News, 30 Oct. Another porter … who told his checker what he had seen. Ibid. (1883), 10 Oct., 7/1. A checker in the grocery department of the Army and Navy Co-operative Stores.
