Word Direct Answers

What does "char" mean?

Char: To perform; to do; to finish. [Obs.] Nores. Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband. Old Proverb.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To work or hew, as stone. Oxf. Gloss.
  2. 3.To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.
  3. 4.To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.
  4. 5.To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood.

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