Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to charcoal; like charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective wine Having a
flavour ofcharred wood . - adjective Relating to
charcoal , or partaking of its qualities.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The very continental Andre showed me some of the other Regence scents including Regence and Eau de Regence I think that were very different that charry-tarry KJ.
Archive 2007-05-01 Marina Geigert 2007
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"Keep away from me, ye charry man!" she cried, raising a hand toward him.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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Half a block down, flare lamps illuminate the rescue work in the charry wet wreckage.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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Unweighted silk does not burn readily and leaves a residue of white ashes, while heavy weighted silk burns lively, leaving black, charry ashes.
Theory of Silk Weaving A Treatise on the Construction and Application of Weaves, and the Decomposition and Calculation of Broad and Narrow, Plain, Novelty and Jacquard Silk Fabrics Arnold Wolfensberger
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When employed in the usual way of colour, with this precaution, the colouring and preserving parts unite with the beer, and the gross charry parts precipitate with the lees, and other feculencies in the tun, previous to cleansing, adding a firm and keeping quality to the beer.
The American Practical Brewer and Tanner Joseph Coppinger
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Yet he must have come pretty close to believing that, unimpeachable as his manners remained, for Whinnie had burned the roast of veal to a charry mass, the Twins were crying like mad, and Dinkie had painted himself and most of the dining-room table with Worcestershire sauce.
The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912
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He did not neglect to paint how the hardened metal, under the electrolyzing current eroding its surface, became as chalk, decomposing into a charry mass which one blow of a hammer might penetrate.
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And then there was a charry smell in the air, and a slender feather of smoke floated up from a second-story window.
The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907
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Still a houting to Bolton ain't bad when the _charry-bang's_ well loaded up
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 15, 1892 Various 1876
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"Too South African" is code for having a certain smoky, charry pungency sometimes controversially - but that's another story found in reds from that country.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Victoria Moore 2012
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