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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.
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              Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she
              had hanged her husband.               --Old Proverb.


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     2. To work or hew, as stone. --Oxf. Gloss.
        [1913 Webster] Char

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.
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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.
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     2. To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood.
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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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Char \Char\, n. [F.]
     A car; a chariot. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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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.]
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           When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leave
           To play till doomsday.                   --Shak.
     [1913 Webster] Char

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

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

  char /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ n. Shorthand for `character'. Esp.
     used by C programmers, as `char' is C's typename for character data.
  
  

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

  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)
       
       

















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