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OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE IMAGE WAS CHECKED.
The e-rara page image was directly inspected. It verifies a contextual 1704 verbal use of check in the restrain-or-impede sense; it is not a CHECK headword, is not claimed as the earliest occurrence, and does not establish the later verify sense, banking senses, or Persian chess ancestry.
Present-Day English1704established
check
A tide passage in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum uses check as a verb meaning restrain or impede.
“if the Tide coming about the Island from the North did not check it”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Printed book
- YEAR
- 1704
- LOCATOR
- Image [834], left column, tide explanation; e-rara content image 2867898
- REPOSITORY
- ETH-Bibliothek Zürich
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Rar 98 Ex.A GF, content image 2867898
- FACSIMILE
- Linked below
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- Yes
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERcheck ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 195 ↗
NAMED SOURCELexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences ↗OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
INSPECTED FACSIMILEOPEN OBJECT ↗
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REPEATABLE VISUAL REVIEW
THE INSPECTION LEDGER
OBSERVED FORMcheck
“if the Tide coming about the Island from the North did not check it”
- INSPECTION DATE
- 2026-08-26
- METHOD
- visual facsimile
- INSPECTOR ROLE
- SET-U editorial review
- EXACT LOCATOR
- Image [834], left column, tide explanation; e-rara content image 2867898
- CLAIM LIMIT
- Verifies a contextual verbal use of check in the restrain-or-impede sense in 1704. It does not establish a CHECK headword, the earliest occurrence, the later verify sense, banking senses, or Persian chess ancestry.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Lexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences
- AUTHOR
- John Harris
- YEAR
- 1704
- PUBLISHER
- Printed for Dan. Brown et al.
- SOURCE TYPE
- digitized primary source
- CITATION KEY
- erara-harris-lexicon-1704