Examples of chessman in a Sentence
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The Sotheby's piece, the equivalent of a rook, is the first missing chessman to be identified.
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Fox News, 3 July 2019
Though never explicitly stated in the show, Ruth was envisioned as having studied Icelandic literature, and the Lewis chessmen were what came up when Shaw went looking for Viking chess sets.
—Karen Han, Vox, 26 Aug. 2018
Fox News, 3 July 2019
Though never explicitly stated in the show, Ruth was envisioned as having studied Icelandic literature, and the Lewis chessmen were what came up when Shaw went looking for Viking chess sets.
—Karen Han, Vox, 26 Aug. 2018
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First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of chessman was
in the 15th century
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“Chessman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chessman. Accessed 9 Dec. 2023.
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chessman
noun
chess·man
ˈches-ˌman 
-mən
: any of the pieces used in chess
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