Charpenterie: f. Carpentrie, Carpenters worke; the trade of a Carpenter; Architecture of tymber.
Charpentier: m. A Carpenter, a Wright. Herbe au charpentier. Prunell, Carpenters-hearbe, Sickle-worte, Hooke-heale, Selfe-heale; also, Rib-worte, Lambes tongue, small Plantaine, &c; Looke Herbe. Charpi: m. Lint, or downe (of linnen.) Looke Charpy. Charpi: m. ie: f. Tosed, or towsed; vncluttered, or pulled out (as a thicke locke of wooll;) also, drawne gently, as wooll, in the spinning; also, hatchelled, or hackelled; refined on the hatchell, or flaxcombe.
Charpie: f. as Charpi. Lint.
Charpir de la laine. To tose, or towse it; to pull out, or asunder, the thicke locks thereof; also, to draw it (gently) in spinning. Charpir du lin. To hackle, or hatchell flax; to refine it, by hatchelling, or on the flaxcombe.
Charpy: m. Lint. Charpy de Nature. A Cobweb.
Charrau: m. A Cart-way; Rutt-way.
Charrée: f. Buck-ashes, the ashes whereof Lye hath bin made; also, a little twelue-footed water-worme, much hunted after by Trowtes, and therefore vsed by fishers as a bayt for them.
Charreton: m. A little chariot.
Charette: f. A Chariot; a Wagon. Chasse à la charrette. is by a Chariot (and the driuer thereof couered with leauie boughes) wherein one lyes, readie with a Peece, or Bowe, to shoot at Deere, while they gaze at the sight, or stop at the noyse, of the wheeles. Mangeur de charrettes ferrées. A terrible cutter, swaggerer, bugbeare, swashbuckler; one that will kill all he sees, and eat all he kils.
Charriable: com. Carriable; which may be carried on waynes, or in waggons.
Charrié: m. A Bucking cloth, or Nash-cloth.
Charrié: m. ée: f. Carried, conueyed by cart, &c.
Carrier: m. as Charrié. Charrier. To carrie, or conuey by cart, waine, chariot, or waggon. Looke Charier. Charriere. as Carriere. Charron: m. A Waggon-maker, Cart-wright, or Cart-maker; also, a Waggon-man, Wayne-man, or Carre-man; one that driues, or goes with, a Cart, Wayne, or waggon; whence; Bon charron tourne en petit lieu: Prov. A good carter turnes in a narrow corner; a wise fellow quits himselfe well in time of extremitie, or, shifts himselfe easily out of an extremitie.
Charronnerie: f. Cart-worke, Cart-making; Carre-directing, or driuing.
Charroy: m. Carriage, Portage, Waynage, Wagonnage; the carrying of things by Wayne, Cart, or Waggon; also, a cart, or other cariage; also, a Cart-load, Chariot-load, or Wagon-load of.
Charroyer. To carrie in, or transport by, a Wayne, or Cart.
Charruage: m. The furniture belonging to a plough; the plough-geeres; also, tilled, or plowed land.
Droict de charruage. as Suitte de disme.
Charruë: f. A Plough.
Tourner la charruë contre les bœufs. To doe things preposterously.
Charruë de chien ne vaut rien: Prov. The plough that a dog drawes is not worth the driuing.
Charrué: m. ée: f. Tilled, plowed.
Charruër. To till, eare, plow.
Charte: f. as Carte; also, the Charter of a Towne, or Corporation. Charté: f. as Cherté. Deerenesse, &c.
Charté: m. ée: f. Hauing a Charter, holding, or held by Charter.
Chartée: f. A Cart-load, or, Cart-full of.
Chartepartie: f. A Charter-partie, or bill of lading.
Charterie: f. A carterlie, or churlish, tricke; also, a Houell to set carts vnder.
Chartier: m. A Carter, Carreman; Waine-man, Waggon-man. Il iure comme vn chartier. He sweares like a Carter; (we say, like a Tinker.) Il n'est si bon chartier qui ne verse: Pro. The best of them sometimes ouerturnes his cart; or, (as we say) the best Cart may orethrow.
Chartil: m. The frame of a Cart, Wayne, or Waggon, without the wheeles.
Chartin. The same.
Charton: m. A Waggoner, or Chariot-driuer.
Chartre: f. A Charter (&c, as in Chartres;) also, a Prison; or, the darkest, or worst roome in a Prison; the Hole, or Dungeon; also, a Consumption; whence; Deuenir, ou estre en chartre. To fall into, or be in, a consumption; to languish, pine, waste, or wither away; (Metaphorically, from such as hauing beene long pent vp in a close prison, looke, for the most part, most pitifully on it.)
Chartres: f. Charters; auncient Rolls, publike Records, Pleadings, Deeds, Instruments, or Euidences, concerning either the Crowne, or Countrey; or, a Comminaltie, or Corporation. Tresor des chartres. The Rolls.
Chartrier: m. A Iaylor; also, a prisoner.
Chartulaire: m. A Terrier, or Coucher-booke.
Charvi. Looke Chervis. Châs. Looke Chaas. Chas. à chas vn; Scarce one, but one, onely one.
Chascun: m. une: f. Euerie one, all, each; Looke Chasque. Chascun a sa guise. Euery one as he likes, &c. Chascun a son tour: Pro. Euery one hath his turne, course, time.
Chascune: f. Looke Chacunerie. Chascunerie, or Chascuniere. Looke Chacunerie. Chaseret: m. A Cheßfat, or Cheese-fat.
Chasereux: m. euse: f. Belonging to the Cheßfat.
Chasier: m. A Cheese-presse; or as Chasiere; a Cheese-hecke.
Chasiere: f. A Cheese-hecke; the long and round racke whereon cheese is dryed; and the great, or grated Saue hung, by a pulley, to the top of a Dayrie-house, or Store-house; and seruing to keepe cheese, white-meates, and other belly-timber in.
Chaslict: m. A Bedstead.
Chasmate: f. A Casemate in fortification; a murthering house placed in the ditch, to plague the assaylants, of a fortresse.
Chasque: com. Each; or as Chascun; (but with some difference; for this goes euer before a Substantiue; as, chasque chose, chasque livre, chasque lieu, &c; the other is most commonly, as a Substantiue, alone; chascun le voit; chascun à part, &c.
A chasque mercier son panier: Pro. Euery one must looke to his owne charge; or, beare his owne burthen.
