Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Checkerwork"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Checkerwork \Check"er*work`\, n.
1. Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately
as to colors or materials.
2. Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.
How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life
of man. --De Foe.
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