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Chess-board. World English Historical Dictionary

Chess-board. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Chess-board The board on which chess is played.

1 1474.  Caxton, Chesse, 133. Of the chesse borde how it is maad.

2 1562.  J. Rowbotham, Chess, A viij b. Beholde here the forme of the Checker or Cheastbourde.

3 1652.  Gaule, Magastrom., 248. An Oracle of Hercules, constituted by a Chest-board.

4 1656.  Beale, Chess-Play, 2.

5 1718.  Prior, Alma, III. 488. Cards are dealt, and chess-boards brought.

6 1848.  Kingsley, Saint’s Trag., IV. ii. 193. Earth her chess-board, and the men and women on it, merely pawns.

7   b.  attrib.

8 1642.  Howell, For. Trav., xiv. (Arb.), 65. Sevill is like a chesse-bord table, having as many Moriscos as Spaniards.

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