CHAR; CHARE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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.

2.
v.

To work or hew, as stone. Oxf. Gloss.

3.
v.

To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.