A cheese styled after the Cheddar cheese made in Cheddar. / (slang) Money, cash, currency.

(cheese making) To cut and press cheese so as to remove the whey and leave drier curds.

A type of rennet cheese that is firm owing to the curds having been pressed or comminuted to a large degree to shed more whey and ripened for a longer time.

(idiomatic) An unsympathetic retort to someone suffering misfortune.

The system for naming chemical compounds. There are two systems of chemical nomenclature:

A loosely woven cotton gauze, originally used to wrap cheese, but now used for various culinary tasks and by farmers to shade crops and keep birds off.

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. / An individual square appearing in such a pattern.

(transitive) To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.

The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis