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chare

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A narrow lane or passage between houses in a town.
  • noun See char.
  • See char.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A chore; to chore; to do. See char.
  • noun Prov. Eng. A narrow street.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative form of char (turn, task, chore, worker).
  • noun Northern England A narrow lane or passage between houses in a town.
  • verb intransitive To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs; to char.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English chare, variant (due to the verb form charen) of char, cher ("a turn"), from Old English ċierr, ċerr ("a turn, change, time, occasion, affair, business"), from Proto-Germanic *karzijanan (“to turn, sweep”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to turn, bend”). More at char.

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Words with the same meaning

  1. chore

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Variants

  1. char

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