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Note: Plurality here presumably alludes to the multiple number of playing pieces, as with other games denoted by plural nouns, though the noun pluralized is not itself a playing piece. As a name for the game checkers is an Americanism, apparently first attested in the journal of the Massachusetts magistrate Samuel Sewall (1652-1730). The usual British correspondent is draughts, but Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary recorded checkers in the northern English counties of Northumberland and Durham.
1712, in the meaning defined above
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“Checkers.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/checkers. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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