checkerboard: Meaning and Definition of

check•er•board

1. a board marked off into 64 squares of two alternating colors, arranged in eight vertical and eight horizontal rows, on which checkers or chess is played.
2. a design resembling this: The garden was laid out in a checkerboard.

1. to arrange in or mark with a checkerboard pattern:Also called, a wall checkerboarded with black and white tiles.