[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
char 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

char \char\, chare \chare\, v. i.
   to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant;
   to do small jobs.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

char \char\ chaumr, v. t. imp.  p. p. charred
   chaumrd; 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
see also:
charred charring char 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
salvelinus salvelinus fontinalis 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

char \char\, n. f.
   a car; a chariot. obs. --chaucer.
   1913 webster

[6] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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"erian, ohg. ch"eran, 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
see also:
chore ajar chare 

[7] : WordNet (r) 2.0

char
     n 1: a charred substance
     2: a human female who does housework; "the char will clean the
        carpet" syn: charwoman, cleaning woman, cleaning
        lady, woman
     3: any of several small-scaled trout
     v 1: burn to charcoal; "without a drenching rain, the forest fire
          will char everything" syn: 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: blacken, scorch
     also: charring, charred
see also:
charwoman cleaning woman cleaning lady woman coal blacken 
scorch charring charred 

[8] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

43 moby thesaurus words for "char":
   blaze, blister, brand, burn, burn in, burn off, cast, cauterize,
   chare, charwoman, chore, cleaner, cleaner-off, cleaner-up,
   cleaning lady, cleaning man, cleaning woman, coal, crack, cupel,
   custodian, do chars, do the chores, flame, found, janitor,
   janitress, labor, oxidate, oxidize, parch, pyrolyze, scorch, sear,
   singe, solder, swinge, torrefy, turn a hand, vesicate, vulcanize,
   weld, work

[9] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

char /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ n. shorthand for `character'. esp.
   used by c programmers, as `char' is c's typename for character data.

[10] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

char
     
         /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ character.
        especially used by c programmers, as "char" is c's
        typename for character data.
     
        jargon file
     
        1994-11-29
     
     
see also:
c jargon file 

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