Usually means: Removing checkers from the board.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. bear off: Merriam-Webster
  2. bear off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bear off: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bear off: Vocabulary.com
  5. bear off: Wiktionary
  6. bear off: Dictionary.com
  7. bear off: Rhymezone
  8. bear off: FreeDictionary.org
  9. bear off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. bear off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bear off: Idioms

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bear Off: Backgammon
  2. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (bear off)

verb:  To gain; to carry off, as a prize.
verb:  To restrain; to keep from approaching.
verb:  (nautical) To remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against anything.
verb:  (backgammon) To remove one of one's own checkers from the board.
verb:  (board games) To remove a piece from play.

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