chequering

English

Verb

chequering

1. present participle and gerund of chequer

Adjective

chequering (comparative more chequering, superlative most chequering)

1. That chequers something in pattern.
   • 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On the Loss of the Steamboat Ætna, page 97:

     […] Above, the azure sky was glowing,
     Beneath, the flood, like silver flowing,
     Around in chequering light and shade,
     Her hues delighted Spring display'd; […]

Noun

chequering (plural chequerings)

1. A chequered pattern.
   • 1821, William Wordsworth, Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge (The Same):

     What awful perspective! while from our sight / With gradual stealth the lateral windows hide / Their Portraitures, their stone-work glimmers, dyed / In the soft chequerings of a sleepy light.