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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1513, 1572
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Char, n.2 Also: chare. [ME. char, charre, cherre, OE. cerr (cierr) a turn, etc.]
1. On char, slightly open, ajar. c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxviii. 11.
The auld kene tegir, with his teith on char a1500 Doug. K. Hart. 361.
The dure on chare it stude; all wes on sleip 1513 Doug. iii. vi. 177.
Quhil per cace The pipand wynd blaw wp the dur on char 1513 Ib. vii. Prol. 129.
I … A schot wyndo onschet a litill on char
2. A turn (of fortune), a reverse. 1572 Satirical Poems xxxi. 94.
Fortoun, with a reill, Hes wrocht thame ane vnabill charr
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