Definition of "chequering" []

• Present participle of chequer. (verb)

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• "For surely to eat and drink one's fill from day to day and give oneself no grief at all, this is the king of gods for your wise man, but lawgivers go hang, chequering, as they do, the life of man!"
• "A gleam of sun shining through the unsashed window, and chequering the dark workshop with a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart."
• "Then his eye fell with a sudden approval on the ornamental chequering of his new stockings."