eschecker (s.xii3/4)
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eschecker (s.xii3/4)

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[ FEW: 19,166b sah; Gdf: 3,385b eschequier 2; GdfC: 9,514a eschequier; TL: 3,892 eschequier; DEAF:  eschec 1 (eschequier); DMF:  échiquier; TLF:  échiquier; OED:  exchequer n.; MED:  escheker n.; DMLBS: ∅ ]
escheccere,  escheckerre,  eschecer;  escheker,  eschekere;  eschekker,  eschekkere,  eschekier,  eschekkier,  eschekkir,  eschiekkier;  eschecqer,  escheqer,  eschesqer,  escheqir;  eschequer,  escheqier,  eschequier,  eschequir,  eschequyr,  eschequoer;  eskekere,  eskekier;  echekere,  echecker;  excheker;  encheker;  eschelker  22.34,  eschecerie,  elschequer  ii 219  

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1gameschesschess-board: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Ne volsist en l’eschekier devenir un aufin  590
( MS: c.1250 )  scacarium: escheker  i 413
( s.xivin; MS: 1312-40 )  demanderent les eschecz, e um lur porta un molt riche eschecker ou meyné de fyn or e argent  43.35
2finan.reckoning-board: 
( 1319 )  il avoit pris son eschecker en la ville de A. en la mesoun [cesti] J.  Ed II xxiv 11
3domestictable with a chequered top: 
( 1379-80 )  aprés ceo que [...] le meir eit ferri sur l’escheqer troifoith d’une malet [...]  i 39
4law(royal) Exchequer, office or department of state overseen by the Treasurer, the Justiciary, and other judges of the King's Court, and Barons nominated by the King: 
( 1421 )  les justices du roi [...] et auxi le chief baroun de l’escheker [...]  iv 153
( 1423 )  [...] as barons de l’eschequer nostre seignur le roy  iv 212
5culin.particoloured sweetmeat: 
( 1397 )  escheqirs faitz de noitz muge d’une part et de la racyne de gyngure d’autre part  iii 363
6 name (used as a surname): 
( 1256 )  Laurence de le Eschekere  Chequer
a, as escheckers
1decor.of check, chequered pattern: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Un bliaut my parti, overé as eschekers  541
( MS: s.xii4/4 )  La susceles ert de palies chers Si ert urlee tut as checchers  720
( c.1200; MS: c.1300 )  La coilte fu a eschekers  179
eschecker chambre
1toponymExchequer Chamber: 
( 1466-67 )  En l’eschekir chambre [...]  ii 1
mareschal del eschecker
mareschal
receite de l’eschecker
receite#1
tresor de l’eschecker
tresor#1
tresorer de l’eschecker
tresorer#1
checker  eschec#2  eschequeré  eschequeté 
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