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checkerboard Maritimes 
n. See 1958 quote.
- 1916 The two of them had scarce shipped the checkerboards to receive the fish before the weather dory had an oar up.
- 1958 [The raft] was a crude, makeshift affair, made up of checker boards (wooden bins used for dressing the fish) and floats salvaged from the trawls.
- 1916 The two of them had scarce shipped the checkerboards to receive the fish before the weather dory had an oar up.