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CHARWOMAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 955 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CHARWOMAN , one who is hired to do occasional See also:

HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL

household See also:

WORK

work. " See also:

CHAR (Salvelinus)

Char " or " chare," which forms the first See also:

PART

part of theword, is See also:

COMMON

common, in many forms, to See also:

Teutonic See also:

LANGUAGES

languages, meaning a " turn," and, in this See also:

ORIGINAL

original sense, is seen in " ajar," properly " on char," of a See also:

DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Bbpa,. Lat. fores or valvae; the English word, with other forms common in allied languages, comes from the same Indo-European stem as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fares)

door " on the turn " in the See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of closing. It is thus applied to a " turn of work," an See also:

ODD (in middle English odde, from old Norwegian oddi, an angle of a triangle; the old Norwegian oddamann is used of the third man who gives a casting vote in a dispute)

odd See also:

JOB

job, and is so used, in the See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form " chore," in See also:

AMERICA

America, and in dialects of the See also:

south-See also:

west of See also:

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