chesses

/CH EH1 S IH0 Z/
noun
  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    (now chiefly US) Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.

  3. 3

    (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.

  4. 4

    A river in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, England, which joins the Colne at Rickmansworth.

  5. 5

    A surname.