Definitions for chesses

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chesses chess

Spelling: [ches]

IPA: /tʃɛs/

Chesses is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in chesses (ceehsss).

Definitions for chesses

noun

1. a game played on a chessboard by two people who maneuver sixteen pieces each according to rules governing movement of the six kinds of pieces (pawn, rook, knight, bishop, queen, king), the object being to bring the opponent's king into checkmate.
2. any of several weedy species of bromegrass, especially Bromus secalinus .
3. one of the planks forming the roadway of a floating bridge.

Origin of chesses

1150-1200; Middle English Old French esches, plural of eschec check¹

Examples for chesses

Yet do not I alowe the diligence of some to painful, whych drawe out these thyngs by playinge at chesses or dyce.