checker tree, chequer tree (chekertre)

[Said to be checker ( checker wise (chek'ér-wiz), adv. [ I observed the bars both of iron and bra they make chequerwise to put before their windows, were of very good workmanship. Pococke , Description of the East, I. 39. checker work (chek'er-werk), n. Any pattern of which the general effect is that of alternating squares of different colors. The word plaid is generally limited to textile fabrics and what may be considered imitations of them, as in color-printing on paper; but checker work is somewhat more general. Thus, a pat tern of metal chains cro ing one another at equal intervals would be called checker work or checkered pattern. Also used figuratively. Also spelled chequerwork. Nets of checker - work and wreaths of chain-work for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars. 1 Ki. vii. 17. How strange a chequer - work of Providence is the life of man! Defoe , Robinson Crusoe. A chequer - work of beam and shade. Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxxii.