Sentence:  `` We 'd give him things to deliver , letters , <WSD>checks</WSD> , deeds and things like that '' , remembers his half-brother Walter , still in the real estate business in savannah , `` and learn days later that he 'd absent-mindedly stuffed them into his pocket . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a written order directing a bank to pay money