chare (plural chares)
Alternative form of char ("turn, task, chore, worker").
(Northern England) A narrow lane or passage between houses in a town.
• (narrow lane): See Thesaurus:alley
chare (third-person singular simple present chares, present participle charing, simple past and past participle chared)
(intransitive) To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs; to char.
• Arche, REACH, acher, chear, rache, reach
Source: Wiktionary
Char, Chare, v. t. Etym: [See 3d Char.]
1. 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. To work or hew, as stone. Oxf. Gloss.
Char, Chare, v. i.
Definition: To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.
Chare, n.
Definition: A narrow street. [Prov. Eng.]
Chare, n. & v.
Definition: A chore; to chore; to do. See Char.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
