Chess (proper noun) /t͡ʃɛs/
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A river in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, England, which joins the Colne at Rickmansworth.
chess (noun) /t͡ʃɛs/
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A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
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(now chiefly US) Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.
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(military, chiefly in the plural) One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.