A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection
A predetermined point in a map, level or scenario that the player may resume from if they die or restart from if they choose to.
A situation, often represented by a point in time, at which the state of a database system is known to be valid, and to which it can be returned in the event of a crisis by using a combination of backups and logs; the data stored at this event.
To set a checkpoint.
A thick pole or piece of wood.
Any crystal with readily discernible faces.
A rafter of a roof.
A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
To contest in words; to wrangle.
To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.