Obs. Forms: 5 chekery, checory, 5 and 9 checkery. [same word as prec.; F. eschekeré was also so used: but in sense 2 app. associated with words in -ERY, like napery, finery.]
† 1. Checked cloth; a checked fabric. Obs.
1420. Test. Ebor. (1836), I. 420. A greene hake lyned with checory.
1459. Will, in Ripon Ch. Acts, 82. Togam meam de chekery.
1472. Plumpton Corr., Introd. 77. Clad in a garment of green checkery.
2. Chequer-work, checked pattern. rare.
1837. Lockhart, Scott, lxiii. The beautiful checkery of the clan tartans.
