Tessellate: alternatives and connections

One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.

Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finish…

To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares.

A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having…

A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.

A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.

Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.

A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved di…

Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.

Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.

Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing.

The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.

Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines,…

A coverlet for a bed, -- originally stitched or woven in squares or figures.

A coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane. See 1st Counterpane.

To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.

An ornamenting in squares or cubes.

A move, as at chess or checkers.