checkers

A game much used by seamen, especially in the tops, where usually a checker-board will be found carved.

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Checkers
·v A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (cou...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
checkers
The common name for the game which is called draughts in England. Mr. Todd, in his edition of Johnso...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
queer checkers
Among strolling players, door-keepers who defraud the company, by falsely checking the number of peo...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose