Meanings of checkering in English

There was a great checkering of light and darkness and the slumbrous sound of water.

We will learn the history of these thickly crossing wrinkles, that, checkering, map out the face like the streets of a busy city.

A large fire, burning brightly before the deserted guard-house, cast its ruddy glow over the animated scene, checkering the rude walls with every passing shadow.

He bought it in 1648, for one hundred and sixty pounds, of Henry Checkering, to whom Mr. Bishop had sold it seven years before.