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

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echekere,  echecker;  escheccere,  escheckerre,  eschecer;  escheker,  eschekere;  eschekker,  eschekkere,  eschekier,  eschekkier,  eschekkir,  eschiekkier;  eschecqer,  escheqer,  eschesqer,  escheqir;  eschequer,  escheqier,  eschequier,  eschequir,  eschequyr,  eschequoer;  eskekere,  eskekier;  excheker  (elschequer  Rot Parl1 ii 219,  encheker  Rot Parl1 i 154,  eschecerie  Mch Tayl Accs2 279 (6 henry IV),  eschelker  Fouke ANTS 22.34)  
  FEW:  sah 19,166b Gdf:  eschequier 2 3,385b GdfC:  eschequier 9,514a TL: eschequier 3,892 DEAF:  eschec 1 (eschequier)  DMF:  échiquier  TLF:  échiquier  OED:  exchequer n.  MED:  escheker n.  DMLBS: ∅

s.

1gameschesschess-board: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Ne volsist en l’eschekier devenir un aufin  FANT OUP 590
( MS: c.1250 )  scacarium: escheker  TLL 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  Fouke ANTS 43.35
2finan.reckoning-board: 
( 1319 )  il avoit pris son eschecker en la ville de A. en la mesoun [cesti] J.  YBB 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 [...]  YMB 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 [...]  Rot Parl1 iv 153
( 1423 )  [...] as barons de l’eschequer nostre seignur le roy  Rot Parl1 iv 212
5culin.particoloured sweetmeat: 
( 1397 )  escheqirs faitz de noitz muge d’une part et de la racyne de gyngure d’autre part  Rot Parl1 iii 363
6 name (used as a surname): 
( 1256 )  Laurence de le Eschekere  Family Names Chequer
a, as escheckers
decor.of check, chequered pattern: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Un bliaut my parti, overé as eschekers  Rom Chev ANTS 541
( MS: s.xii4/4 )  La susceles ert de palies chers Si ert urlee tut as checchers  Floire ants 720
( c.1200; MS: c.1300 )  La coilte fu a eschekers  Desiré2 179
eschecker chambre
toponymExchequer Chamber: 
( 1466-67 )  En l’eschekir chambre [...]  Exchequer Chamber ii 1
mareschal del eschecker
mareschal
receite de l’eschecker
receite1
tresor de l’eschecker
tresor1
tresorer de l’eschecker
tresorer1

See also:

checker  eschec2  eschequeré  eschequeté 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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