Chequers meaning : One who checks or verifies something. One who makes a check mark. The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment. One who hinders or stops something. A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts). A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard. The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis The edible fruit of the wild service tree, Sorbus torminalis.