Obs. rare. [Of obscure origin.] A chequer or chess-board; some game played on this. Also Queke-board.
[1376. in Riley, Mem. London (1868), 395. A pair of tables, on the outside of which was painted a chequer-board, that is called a ‘quek.’… The complainants played with the defendant Nicholas at quek.]
1426. Lydg., De Guil. Pilgr., 11198. Rede … On thyng that ys nat worth a lek; Pleye at the keylēs & the quek.
1477. Act 17. Edw. IV., c. 3. Diversez novelx ymaginez jeuez appellez Cloishe Kaylez half kewle Hondyn & Hondoute & Quekeborde.
a. 1500. in Freeman, Exeter (1887), 161. Yong peple … within the said cloistre have exercised unlawful games as the toppe, queke, penny prykke.
