Crossword-Solution: CHECKY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Checky | a. | Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing. |
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| chequy | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CHECKY (5)
And as soon as he was gone, didn't the Woman throw down her knitting, and laid her head upon her knees, and cried and cried, till her blue checky apron was like as if it was after being wrung out of a tub of suds.
Then came John Harrison of Lowick, sometimes called "Checky," from the colour of his shirt, who carried off one or two prizes from the Keswick ring in its palmiest days; later in life a landlord at Ulverston; a man of enormous strength, standing fully six feet high, stout limbed, and weighing something like seventeen stones.
Warenne bore "Checky gold and azure." Clifford bore the like with "a fesse gules." Cobham bore "Silver a lion checky gold and sable." Arderne bore "Ermine a fesse checky gold and gules." [Illustration: Phelip Lord Bardolf.
The heraldry writers are ready to note that when two rows are used "counter-compony" is the word in place of checky, and "compony-counter-compony" in the case of three rows.
They are all made of white linen or calico, the only colour employed being in the girdle and stole, which (to use the convenient heraldic terms) are checky in squares white and blue, bearing crosses of the same colours counter-changed.