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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Checkerwork

/(chĕk"ẽr*wûrk`)/ · Check·er·work · IPA
01 n. Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.
  1. 1.
    Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.
  2. 2.
    Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.
    “How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man.” De Foe.