char

Noun

• any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus

• a human female employed to do housework
  • the char will clean the carpet
    
  • I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write
    

• a charred substance

Verb

• burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
  • The cook blackened the chicken breast
    
  • The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece
    
  • the flames scorched the ceiling
    

• burn to charcoal
  • Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  charr , charwoman , cleaning woman , cleaning lady , woman , blacken , sear , scorch , coal