A player bears off a checker by rolling a number that corresponds to the point on which the checker resides, and then removing that checker from the board Men borne off the board are not re-entered into play The player who bears off all his checkers first is the winner
To remove a checker from the board according to a roll of the dice, after all of the player's checkers have been brought into his home board
remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state; "Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands"; "The car carried us off to the meeting"; "I'll take you away on a holiday"; "I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry"
Bearing off is when you turn down wind a bit If you were to be sailing on a close reach, and you were to bear off, you would turn the nose of your board further downwind