† 1. Taunting speech, invective, reproof. Obs.
1535. Coverdale, Job xx. 3. I haue sufficiently herde the checkynge & reprofe.
1659. Heylin, Animadv., in Fuller, Appeal (1840), 608. To satisfy the desires of the Commons … and repress their checkings.
2. A controlling and verifying of accounts, etc.
1879. C. W. Scott, in Theatre, 1 Nov., 199. What a checking and adjusting there would be!
