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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Char \Char\, Chare \Chare\, v. i. To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Char \Char\ (ch[aum]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Charred} (ch[aum]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Charring}.] [Prob. the same word as char to perform (see {Char}, n.), the modern use coming from charcoal, prop. coal-turned, turned to coal.] 1. To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder. [1913 Webster] 2. To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Char \Char\, Charr \Charr\, n. [Ir. cear, Gael. ceara, lit., red, blood-colored, fr. cear blood. So named from its red belly.] (Zool.) One of the several species of fishes of the genus {Salvelinus}, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout ({Salvelinus fontinalis}) is sometimes called a char. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Char \Char\, n. [F.] A car; a chariot. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Char \Char\, n. [OE. cherr, char a turning, time, work, AS. cerr, cyrr, turn, occasion, business, fr. cerran, cyrran, to turn; akin to OS. k["e]rian, OHG. ch["e]ran, G. kehren. Cf. {Chore}, {Ajar}.] Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore. [Written also {chare}.] [Eng.] [1913 Webster] When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leave To play till doomsday. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Char From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Char \Char\, Chare \Chare\, v. t. [See 3d {Char}.] 1. To perform; to do; to finish. [Obs.] --Nores. [1913 Webster] Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband. --Old Proverb. [1913 Webster] 2. To work or hew, as stone. --Oxf. Gloss. [1913 Webster] Char From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: char n 1: a charred substance 2: a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write" [syn: {charwoman}, {char}, {cleaning woman}, {cleaning lady}, {woman}] 3: any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus [syn: {char}, {charr}] v 1: burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything" [syn: {char}, {coal}] 2: burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling" [syn: {char}, {blacken}, {sear}, {scorch}] From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: char /keir/, /char/, /kar/, n. Shorthand for ?character?. Esp.: used by C programmers, as char is C's typename for character data. From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: char /ʃaʀ/ tank; cart; chariot