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chessplayer

noun

Etymology

From chess + player.

  1. inherited from *plegārī✻
  2. inherited from pleġere — “player, athlete, wrestler”
  3. inherited from pleyer
  4. formed as chessplayer — “chess + player”

Definitions

  1. Alternative spelling of chess player.

    • The hours spent there by Corvick were present to my fancy as those of a chessplayer bent with a silent scowl, all the lamplit winter, over his board and his moves.

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