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Syllable type in the phonology in Middle Chinese
A checked tone, commonly known by the Chinese calque entering tone, is one of the four syllable types in the phonology of Middle Chinese. Although usually
Checked_tone
Branch of Sino-Tibetan languages
the historical dark checked tone, though is listed as its own group by others, often due to its more regular light checked tones. Jilu Mandarin is spoken
Sinitic_languages
Branch of the Mandarin Chinese language family
tones in Sichuanese: dark level tone, light level tone, rising tone, departing tone and entering tone (or checked tone). In some regions the checked tone
Sichuanese_dialects
Tonal system of Middle Chinese
"entering" or "checked" 入; rù)). The last three are collectively referred to as "oblique" (仄; zè), an important concept in poetic tone patterns, whereas
Four_tones_(Middle_Chinese)
Use of pitch to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning
is mid tone in a register system and /˧˧/ is mid level tone in a contour system, or /˧/ may be mid tone on a short syllable or a mid checked tone, while
Tone_(linguistics)
Symbol or mark representing linguistic tone
are level tones, it's a common convention to use double tone letters for those level tones, and single tone letters for short checked tones, as in Taiwanese
Tone_letter
Jin Chinese dialect of Shaanxi, China
checked tone syllables, only fully voiced consonants still retain the checked tone, while clear and sub-voiced syllables are spoken with a high tone (Chinese:
Zhi-Yan_dialect
Stop consonant without a release burst
and tone. Munda languages such as Santali are characterized by checked syllable-final plosives that are both unreleased and glottalized. Checked tone Glottal
No_audible_release
Concept in phonology, especially of English
with a rhotacized offset) in rhotic English. List of phonetics topics Checked tone of Chinese V.J. Cook (2004). The English Writing System. London: Edward
Checked_and_free_vowels
Chinese varieties spoken at and south of the Yangtze delta
typically preserve all voiced initials of medieval Chinese, as well as the checked tone in the form of a glottal stop. Wu varieties also have morphological and
Wu_Chinese
Mandarin dialects spoken around Beijing, China
dialect group in which checked tone characters with a voiceless initial have dark level, light level, rising and departing tone reflexes. He chose the
Beijing Mandarin (division of Mandarin)
Beijing_Mandarin_(division_of_Mandarin)
Tibeto-Burman language
/kʰa̰/ "to wait upon; to attend on" Checked ခတ် /kʰaʔ/ "to beat; to strike" In syllables ending with /ɰ̃/, the checked tone is excluded: Low ခံ /kʰàɰ̃/ "undergo"
Burmese_language
Sound system of a Wu Chinese subbranch
aspiration conditions a further tone split through the dark tones. Note that, unlike Yue languages, the dark checked tone split is conditioned by aspiration
Northern_Wu_phonology
Phonology of the Cantonese language
three checked tones are separated, the stop codas /p, t, k/ are in complementary distribution with the nasal codas /m, n, ŋ/. Cantonese uses tone contours
Cantonese_phonology
Wu Chinese variety spoken in Shanghai
The checked tones are shorter, and describe those rimes which end in a glottal stop /ʔ/. That is, both the yin–yang distinction and the checked tones are
Shanghainese
Karen language of Myanmar
pitch of the checked tone is almost the same as that of the falling tone. Therefore, some speakers confuse the checked tone with a falling tone. Giving a
Western_Pwo_language
Phonology of the Hokkien language
and S respectively. Finals with the coda /-ʔ/ are considered to be the checked tone counterparts for the open-vowel finals. /ə/ is not found in Amoy Hokkien
Hokkien_phonology
Branch of the Chinese language family
aspirated and voiced consonants. There were four tones, with the fourth or "entering tone", a checked tone comprising syllables ending in plosives (-p, -t
Mandarin_Chinese
Chinese pronunciation system (601 AD)
a two-way contrast in checked syllables. Cantonese maintains these tones and has developed an additional distinction in checked syllables, resulting in
Middle_Chinese
Branch of Chinese spoken in Guangxi
Southern dialect has several notable features such as having four distinct checked tones, and using various loanwords from the Zhuang languages, such as the
Pinghua
Form of Chinese spoken in northern China between the 12th and 14th centuries
However, checked tone syllables (ending in the stops /p/, /t/ or /k/ in Middle Chinese) were all written with a glottal stop ending. (Other tones are not
Old_Mandarin
Prestige variety of Yue Chinese
consonant were considered as "checked tones" and treated separately by diachronic convention, identifying Cantonese with nine tones (九声六调). However, these are
Cantonese
Southern Min language of China
the "dark—light" order (the checked tones are 7 and 8) or in the "level—rising—departing—entering" order (the checked tones are 4 and 8). This section
Teochew_Min
Kra–Dai language spoken in Southeast Asia
Mangshi (芒市) Dialect, the high falling tone mark (◌ᥳ) is usually left unmarked. Due to the irregular checked tones correspondence, the Tai Le used will
Tai_Nuea_language
Variety of Hakka Chinese spoken in Indonesia
pronounced with a low tone [˨] (22). Another example is the word /t͡ʃuk˧˦/ (竹) 'bamboo', which is pronounced with a high checked tone [˧˦] (34) when it stands
Singkawang_Hakka
Japanese symbol
known as nisshō, nissei (入聲; literally "entering voice"), referred to a checked tone, or a syllable that ends in an unreleased plosive (see 促聲). 促聲 contrasts
Sokuon
Kra–Dai languages spoken in China
tonal language. It has 5 tones: Rising (¹) High (²) Mid (³) Low (⁴) Mid checked (⁷) The Bolian dialect has also a high checked tone (⁸). List of Proto-Ong-Be
Be_languages
Mandarin Chinese as spoken in Singapore
highly influenced by the ru sheng (入声, checked tone or 5th tone) from other Chinese varieties. As such, the 5th tone did appear in earlier Singaporean Mandarin
Singaporean_Mandarin
Geolinguistic region of areal features
analyses, syllables ending in stops have been treated as a fourth or "checked tone", because their distribution parallels that of syllables with nasal codas
Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area
Mainland_Southeast_Asia_linguistic_area
Sounds and pronunciation of the Burmese language
vowel and precluding it from bearing tone. This itself is often referred to as the "checked" or "entering" tone, following Chinese nomenclature. It can
Burmese_phonology
Dialect of Hakka Chinese
the following: 陰入 [ ˩ ] a low pitched checked tone 陽入 [ ˥ ] a high pitched checked tone Middle Chinese entering tone syllables ending in [k] whose vowel
Meixian_dialect
yinping), Tone 2 (35) (a rising tone or yangping), Tone 3 (32) (slight falling tone or shang), Tone 4 (55) (high even or qu), and Tone 5 (5) (checked tone or
Zhenjiang_dialect
Sino-Tibetan language
tones. Historically, finals that end in a stop consonant were considered to be "checked tones" and thus counted separately for a total of nine tones.
Chinese_language
Romanization scheme for Cantonese
To represent tones, the numbers 1 to 9 are usually used in ILE, although the use of 1, 3, 6 to replace 7, 8, 9 for the checked tones is acceptable.
Jyutping
Eastern Min Chinese language
assimilation that occurs after them. Although the iòng-ĭk (陽入) tone is also a checked tone composed of both types of syllables, in -k and in -h, there is
Fuzhou_dialect
Phonetic feature of some languages
consonant, may be called checked, abrupt, clipped, or stopped tones. It has been theorized that the relative timing of a contour tone is not distinctive. That
Tone_contour
Dialect of Sichuanese Chinese
characteristic of the Minjiang dialect is that the stop consonants for checked-tone syllables in Middle Chinese have developed into tense vowels to create
Minjiang_dialect
Tai language closely related to Thai and Lao
as /m/, /n/, /ŋ/, /w/, or /j/. Three of the five or six phonemic tones occur in checked syllables which are closed syllables ending in a glottal stop (/ʔ/)
Khün_language
Tai–Kadai language spoken by the Sui people of Guizhou, China
with numerical Chao tone equivalents also given in between slashes. The alternate checked tone 7 is found on the long vowel /aːC/. Tone 8 is somewhat variable
Sui_language
numbers whose tone has shifted from low → creaky: 1 When combined with the numeral place, the pronunciations for 1 and 2 shift from a checked tone (glottal
Burmese_numerals
Romanization for the Teochew language
but is included in the table below as a glottal stop. There are 59 finals: Tone is notated as a numeric superscript following the syllable. For example:
Peng'im
Dialect of Chinese language
Mandarin varieties, there are four tones. Words with the checked tone in Middle Chinese became the light level tone. Dark level 55 (also 44) Light level
Wuhan_dialect
Change in tone contour based on adjacent syllable tones
transcription delimiters. Tone sandhi is a phonological change that occurs in tonal languages. It involves changes to the tones assigned to individual words
Tone_sandhi
Japanese kanji pronunciation style
Kan-on: a later type of reading Tō-on: an even later type of reading Checked tone Edwin G Pulleyblank (1991). Lexicon of Reconstructed Pronunciation: In
Go-on
Words indicating which object is being referred to
also have a distance-neutral demonstrative 搿, which is etymologically a checked-tone derivation of 個. In lects such as Shanghainese, distance-based demonstratives
Demonstrative
Southwestern Mandarin Chinese dialect
pitches vis a vis Mandarin. The ancient checked tone of Chinese has been redistributed entirely into the departing tone. There are 24 initials in the Zigong
Zigong_dialect
Primary branch of Mandarin Chinese
Standard Mandarin, but most varieties of it also fail to retain the checked tone that all southern dialects have. The Chengdu-Chongqing and Hubei dialects
Southwestern_Mandarin
Sinitic language originating in southern China
lost all of their checked tones (rusheng), and the characters originally of this tone class are distributed across the non-ru tones. An example of such
Hakka_Chinese
One of the sources of pronunciation of Japanese kanji
readings Go-on: an earlier type of reading Tō-on: a later type of reading Checked tone Miyake, Marc Hideo (2003). Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction. Routledge
Kan-on
Mandarin dialect in Shaanxi province
four tones and one neutral tone. It also has tone sandhi system. Like many other Northern Mandarin varieties, the variety lacks a checked tone, and instead
Guanzhong_dialect
Dialect of Hokkien spoken in the city of Xiamen
(the checked tones). The tones are traditionally numbered from 1 through 8, with 4 and 8 being the checked tones. The distinction between tones 2 and
Amoy_dialect
Eastern Min Chinese dialect
rimes: aŋ, ɛŋ, eŋ, œŋ, øŋ, ɔŋ, oŋ, iŋ, uŋ, yŋ, iaŋ, iɛŋ, uaŋ, uoŋ, yøŋ 26 checked rimes: aʔ, ɛʔ, œʔ, øʔ, ɔʔ, iʔ, iaʔ, iɛʔ, uaʔ, uoʔ, yøʔ, ak̚, ɛk̚, ek̚,
Ningde_dialect
Phonetic alphabet
the same, with longer time at low tone, (·.·) dipping tone, (.·.) peaking tone. (؛ ,·؛.) were high and low checked tones. Preceding a word, (·:·) and (.:
Palaeotype_alphabet
1913-1926 Republic of China attempt to unify the Chinese dialects
as alveolars. A distinction between /e/ and /o/. Preservation of the checked tone (traditional Chinese: 入聲; simplified Chinese: 入声; pinyin: rùshēng). Although
Old_National_Pronunciation
Phonology of the Vietnamese language
14 vowel nuclei, and 6 tones that are integral to the interpretation of the language. Older interpretations of Vietnamese tones differentiated between
Vietnamese_phonology
Printing process
Halftone is the reprographic technique that simulates continuous-tone imagery through the use of dots, varying either in size or in spacing, thus generating
Halftone
Hakka dialect of Taiwan
seven tone sandhi rules: the "low" dark-level and light-level tones mostly become a mid tone (33) or a high rising tone (35); thus, the tones of these
Sixian_dialect
Reconstructed ancestor of Min languages
aspirated and voiced consonants. There were four tones, with the fourth, the "entering tone", a checked tone comprising syllables ending in stops (-p, -t
Proto-Min
Ordering of characters in Japanese language
suggesting its origin in Middle Chinese phonology, where 促聲 refers to a checked tone, or a syllable ending in an unreleased plosive consonant (see 促聲). 撥音
Gojūon
compromise between Beijingese and other regional dialects: it preserved the checked tone that had disappeared in Mandarin, as well as some consonantal endings
History_of_Standard_Chinese
Reconstructed ancestor of the Loloish languages
Vowels (8): /i/, /y/, /ɯ/, /u/, /e/, /o/, /ɔ/, /a/ Tones (5): 1, 2, 3 (unchecked tones), H, L (checked tones) Bradley, David. 2005. "Sanie and language loss
Proto-Loloish_language
Sinitic language spoken in urban Hangzhou, China
other tones, and can thus be transcribed as [˦˦˥] 445. Tones 1 and 5 therefore can be difficult to distinguish in careful speech The two checked tones (7
Hangzhou_dialect
Kra–Dai language
all "dead syllables" are phonetically checked, and have the reduced tonal inventory characteristic of checked syllables. In some English loanwords, closed
Thai_language
Colloquial Mandarin Chinese in Malaysia
'flat' sound, as well as an extensive use of glottal stops and the "checked tone". That results in a distinct "clipped" sound compared to other forms
Malaysian_Mandarin
Dialect of Mandarin Chinese spoken in Hebei and Shandong
its name) The Bao–Tang dialect shares the same tonal evolution of the checked tone from Middle Chinese as Beijing Mandarin and Northeastern Mandarin. Moreover
Jilu_Mandarin
Kra–Dai language of Myanmar
family and is related to Thai. It has five tones, which do not correspond exactly to Thai tones, plus a sixth tone used for emphasis. The term Shan is also
Shan_language
Dialect of Hokkien spoken in parts of Malaysia
There are seven tones, five of which are long tones and two are checked tones. Like other varieties of Hokkien, these tones also undergo tone sandhi in non-final
Southern Peninsular Malaysian Hokkien
Southern_Peninsular_Malaysian_Hokkien
Fold of skin on the ear of certain mammals
ancestor. The pocket is a common area for parasites to gather, and should be checked during a veterinary examination. August, John R. (3 November 2009). Consultations
Henry's_pocket
has made numerous false or misleading claims. The Associated Press fact-checked several of Trump's statements from his first week in office, declaring
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump (second term)
False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump_(second_term)
Southwestern Tai language
syllable-initial consonants, nine syllable-finals and six tones (three different tones in checked syllables, six in open syllables). The initials t͡s- and
Tai_Lue_language
Dialect of Teochew spoken in Pontianak, Indonesia
distinct tones, which are further classified into yin (陰, "dark") and yang (陽, "light") tones. These tones are classified into four categories: level tones, rising
Pontianak_Teochew
Term in accounting regarding the ethical climate of an organization
Board of Directors [which] inappropriately reinforced rather than checked the tone and culture set by [1999-2004 Fannie Mae CEO Franklin] Raines and other
Tone_at_the_top
Dialect of Teochew Min
notable for having four falling tone out of its five non-checked tones. There is an ongoing tone shift in the Teoyeo dialect. This shift is more advanced
Teoyeo_dialect
Yue Chinese dialect spoken in Guangxi
tonal distinction in checked syllables, whereas most other Yue dialects have three: In Bobai, both the lower and upper entering tone is split (8a and 8b
Bobai_dialect
Tai language spoken in China and Southeast Asia
There are six tones on a smooth syllable (an open syllable or a closed syllable ending in a sonorant). Two of the six tones occur on a checked syllable (a
Tai_Dón_language
Dialect of Yue Chinese
to be eight tone categories: Also known as the upper dark entering (上阴入 / 上陰入) tone. Also known as the lower dark entering (下阴入 / 下陰入) tone. ˥˧ (53) is
Yunfu_Cantonese
Linguistic substrate
rhymes such as i, e, en, eng differently. In terms of tone, they often bring the checked tone (Chinese: 入聲) of Hokkien into Mandarin.[citation needed]
Hokkien influence on Singaporean Mandarin
Hokkien_influence_on_Singaporean_Mandarin
Abugida script
of checked–unchecked syllables, the full tone conjugation table can be constructed as shown below. Color codes are assigned in the table to each tone mark:
Tai_Tham_script
Standard variety and register of the Zhuang Tai (Kra-Dai) language cluster
six tones. Tones for open syllables (not terminated by a closing consonant) are written at end of syllables. Checked syllables can only have two tones, high
Standard_Zhuang
stop consonant /p/, /t/ or /k/ (checked syllables) had no tonal contrasts but were traditionally treated as a fourth tone category, 'entering' (入 rù), corresponding
Varieties_of_Chinese
Unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds
most often consonants). Syllables may bear properties such as stress and tone and be subject to operations such as reduplication. Speech can usually be
Syllable
Kra–Dai language spoken in China
in sequences /en, eŋ, ep, et, ek/. (Liang 2002: 36-42) The tone categories and contour-tone values for three dialects of Biao are (Liang 2002: 53): There
Biao_language
R-coloring in Mandarin Chinese syllables
shǎng (third) tone to assimilate to the yángpíng (second) tone, the original tone of the morpheme 儿. The Nanking dialect preserves the checked syllable (pinyin:
Erhua
Spanish manufacturer of casings for meat products
translated text and the factual accuracy of the translation should be checked by someone fluent in Spanish and English. (December 2022) This article
Viscofan
Yue dialect of China
distinction in checked syllables, whereas most other Yue dialects have three. In Yulin dialect just to the north of Bobai, however, neither entering tone is split:
Goulou_Yue
translated text and the factual accuracy of the translation should be checked by someone fluent in Italian and English. (March 2025) This article contains
Torrini_(jeweller)
Commerce technology company
article contains translated text and the factual accuracy of the translation should be checked by someone fluent in French and English. (December 2024)
VusionGroup
Dialect of Wu Chinese
following Tone 7 can also shift chains Tone 7 + Tone 5/6 > (Tone 7 + Tone 1/2) > 7.2 Tone 7 + Tone 6 > 7.3 most non-checked syllables following Tone 8 collapse
Suzhou_dialect
Notation used for Chinese phonetics
level tone are frequently doubled to prevent confusion with tone numbers, though sometimes a single digit is used with a short vowel or in a checked syllable
Sinological_phonetic_notation
Reconstructed ancestor of the Karenic languages
six tones, four in open syllables and two in checked syllables (those ending in a glottal stop). By comparing the lexical incidence of these tones, Haudricourt
Proto-Karenic_language
District in Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
by migrants who came from the city of Yulin in the 1930s, and has a checked tone distinct from varieties of Zhi-Yan spoken in urban Baota District. As
Baota_District
Orthography in the Latin alphabet for Taiwanese Hokkien
basic tone (7) mid tone, and the four sub-tones (1) high, (5) rising, (3) low falling/low, (2) falling/high falling (') indicates a changed tone (**) indicates
Phofsit_Daibuun
Part of the French Revolutionary Wars
Wolfe Tone, a Protestant secretary to Dublin's Catholic Committee. Acknowledging his Argument on behalf of the Catholics of Ireland, in which Tone maintained
Irish_Rebellion_of_1798
Southwestern Mandarin dialects
four tones, corresponding mostly to the four tones of Standard Mandarin. However, some varieties may preserve a distinct tone reflecting old checked, or
Gui-Liu_Mandarin
Thai language related to standard Thai and Lao
and the old 6-tone accent of Tai Khuen, except that the checked syllables of Chiang Rai are more complicated. The primary function of a tone box is etymological
Northern_Thai_language
Language
distinctive tones in non-checked syllables.[what are they?] Checked syllables in Yoy can carry only tone 1 (mid-leveled tone), tone 2 (high-rising tone), and
Yoy_language
Eastern Min dialect of Taiwan
both the level tones (平聲), rising tone (上聲) and the light entering tone (陽入) should be read using 'close rimes' (緊韻); both departing tones (去聲) and the
Matsu_dialect
Kra–Dai language
[haː˩˩ paː˩˧] (Osatananda, 1997, p. 119). This tone is realized as a low level tone (22 or ˨˨) in a checked syllable with a short vowel (e.g., [kʰap˨˨] ຄັບ
Lao_language
Variety of the Hakka Chinese language
when a word with Tone [˨˦] (24) is followed by another word with Tone [˨˦] (24), Tone [˥˥] (55), or Tone [˥] (5), it changes to Tone [˧] (33). For example
Pontianak_Hakka
Form of song
to a referential mode final, incipits and cadences, the use of reciting tones at a particular distance from the final, around which the other notes of
Gregorian_chant
CHECKED TONE
CHECKED TONE
Girl/Female
Arabic
Long Necked
Male
Chamoru
, young chicken; cockerel.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Check, Control
Girl/Female
Muslim
Rosy-cheeked
Female
Ukrainian
, downy-cheeked, or, soft-haired.
Male
Czechoslovakian
, downy-cheeked, or, soft-haired.
Boy/Male
Spanish
God will add.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Rosy-cheeked
Female
Czechoslovakian
, downy-cheeked, or, soft-haired.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Full checked
Biblical
as a devil, or a destroyer
Boy/Male
Australian, Biblical, Christian
Destroyer
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Handsome Necked
Female
Egyptian
, rose-faced, or, rosy-cheeked.
Boy/Male
Biblical
As a devil or a destroyer.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Full checked
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of various places called Checkley, in Cheshire, Herefordshire, and Staffordshire. The first is named from an Old English personal name Ceaddica + lēah ‘woodland clearing’; the other two have the same second element, combined with an Old English personal name Ceacca or Old English ceacce ‘hill’.
Male
English
Anglicized form of Hebrew Kesed, CHESED means "increase." In the bible, this is the name of the 4th son of Nahor.
Surname or Lastname
Possibly an Americanized spelling of Czech and Slovak ÄŒech (see Cech), or other Slavic or German ethnic names for a Czech.English
Possibly an Americanized spelling of Czech and Slovak ÄŒech (see Cech), or other Slavic or German ethnic names for a Czech.English : unexplained.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Australian, German, Muslim
Rosy-cheeked
CHECKED TONE
CHECKED TONE
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a wagoner or carter, Middle English wayner, an agent derivative of Old English wæg(e)n, wæn ‘cart’.Variant of German Wagner in Slavic-speaking regions.German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Weiner.
Girl/Female
English American
Water; stream.
Boy/Male
Indian, Marathi
One of the Ved of Hindu Dharma
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, English
Stone of the Side; Combination of Initials J and D; The Gemstone Jade
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, having several possible origins: 1) from the byname Draca, DRAKE means "snake" or "dragon." 2) from Middle English drake, meaning "male duck." 3) from Old Norse Draki, meaning "snake" or "monster."Â
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Content; Satisfied
Girl/Female
Indian
Elvin beauty
Boy/Male
Indian
Peace
Surname or Lastname
English (Midlands)
English (Midlands) : probably a variant of Eubanks.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Thankful of anybody, Satisfied, Contended, Pleased
CHECKED TONE
CHECKED TONE
CHECKED TONE
CHECKED TONE
CHECKED TONE
a.
Having (such) a neck; -- chiefly used in composition; as, stiff-necked.
a.
Having (such) a chest; -- in composition; as, broad-chested; narrow-chested.
v. t.
To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
a.
Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people.
v. t.
A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.
a.
Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.
v. t.
To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check.
a.
Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2.
v. t.
To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage.
n.
A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad.
a.
Checkered; designed in checks.
a.
Partially decked.
a.
Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.
a.
Cracked; -- said of a treenail.
v. t.
One who checks.
a.
Having whelks; whelky; as, whelked horns.
v. t.
To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber.
imp. & p. p.
of Checker
imp. & p. p.
of Check
v. t.
A pattern in checks; a single check.