"checkstring" meaning in English

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "check",
        "3": "string"
      },
      "expansion": "check + string",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From check + string.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "checkstrings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "checkstring (plural checkstrings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1864,, William Stephens Hayward, Revelations of a Lady Detective, short story \"Incognito\", George Vickers, Strand\nI pulled the check-string, and gave him [the coachdriver] his instructions."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 4",
          "text": "Mrs Hurstpierpoint - the dowager of the gleaming brows - leaned forward all at once in the carriage and pulled the checkstring attached to her footman's arm."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cord used by a passenger in a carriage to signal to the driver to slow down or go faster."
      ],
      "id": "en-checkstring-en-noun-pyNWKHHy",
      "links": [
        [
          "cord",
          "cord"
        ],
        [
          "passenger",
          "passenger"
        ],
        [
          "carriage",
          "carriage"
        ],
        [
          "driver",
          "driver"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "checkstring"
}

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "check",
        "3": "string"
      },
      "expansion": "check + string",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From check + string.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "checkstrings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "checkstring (plural checkstrings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English nouns",
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        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1864,, William Stephens Hayward, Revelations of a Lady Detective, short story \"Incognito\", George Vickers, Strand\nI pulled the check-string, and gave him [the coachdriver] his instructions."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 4",
          "text": "Mrs Hurstpierpoint - the dowager of the gleaming brows - leaned forward all at once in the carriage and pulled the checkstring attached to her footman's arm."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cord used by a passenger in a carriage to signal to the driver to slow down or go faster."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cord",
          "cord"
        ],
        [
          "passenger",
          "passenger"
        ],
        [
          "carriage",
          "carriage"
        ],
        [
          "driver",
          "driver"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "checkstring"
}