CHESS
ADJECTIVES
1649 — LEAP-SKIP applied to the knight’s move in chess → obs.
1883 — CHESSY characteristic of good play at chess → colloq.
NOUNS
1303 — TABLER a chess-board → obs.
1369 — JEOPARDY a problem in chess → obs.
1426 — QUEK → QUEKE a chess-board → obs.
1450 — LADY a queen at chess → obs.
1470 — TABLE the ‘board’ on which chess, draughts, backgammon, or any similar game is played → obs.
1474 — TABLIER a chess-board → obs.
1523 — JUDGE in chess: a rook
1523 — YEOMEN the pawns at chess → obs.
1547 — NECK a move to cover check in chess → obs.
1574 — DAME the queen at chess → obs.
1597 — RANK one of the lines of squares stretching across the board from side to side (in chess)
1625 — DUKE the castle or rook at chess → obs.
1856 — SKITTLES chess played without serious application → colloq.
..20C — WHORE the queen in chess and playing cards
NOUNS, PERSON
1624 — CHESSNER a chess player → obs.
1750 — BLACK the player using the black or coloured pieces
1948 — POTZER an inferior chess-player → sl.
1950 — WOOD-PUSHER a chess player, esp. an unskilled one → Amer. sl.
VERBS
1585 — NECK to cover check in chess → obs.
1975 — BIFF to take or win a card or trick in a card game, or a checker, or chess piece → US sl. (Bk.)
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