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English
Etymology
From check + string.
Noun
checkstring (plural checkstrings)
- A cord used by a passenger in a carriage to signal to the driver to slow down or go faster.
- 1864,, William Stephens Hayward, Revelations of a Lady Detective, short story "Incognito", George Vickers, Strand
- I pulled the check-string, and gave him his instructions.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 4
- 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.