vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] Alternation in marking order, etc.
1662. Fuller, Worthies (1840), I. 329. The names of Pierce … and Richard have been … successively varied in this family for six or seven descents. Such chequering of Christian names serve heralds instead of stairs [etc.].
1847. H. Miller, First Impr., xiv. 237. The chequering of shade predominated.
1881. Greener, Gun, 250. The chequering is then done, and the gun stripped of all the iron-work.
