a. Also 6 checkey, 7 -ie, chequy, 9 -ey, -ee, checquey. [orig. aphetic f. OF. eschequié, eschequé in same sense (see CHECK v.2), but assimilated to Eng. adjs. in -Y.] Checked, chequered: a. Her.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, Her., B v a. Called checky … whan the felde is chekerd with diuerse colouris.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 782. The Crosse is chequy.
1704. J. Harris, Lex. Techn., Checky, the Herald’s Term for a Bordure or Ordinary, that hath more than two Rows of Checkers.
1864. Boutell, Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3), xv. 217. A fess checquy.
b. gen. Hence † checkie-wise adv.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, III. ix. (1632), 543. My booke … is but uncoherent, checky, or illjoined.
1866. Neale, Seq. & Hymns, 206. Checkie-wise falling On to the turf beneath, the sun made richest confusion Mixed with the foliage’ shadows.
