noun.
A routine or minor duty or task. synonym: task.
noun.
An unpleasant or burdensome task.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
Same as chare.
noun.
A chorus; a choir.
Same as char, 5.
noun.
A char, chare, or small job; a task; especially, a piece of minor domestic work, as about a house or barn, of regular or frequent recurrence: generally in the plural.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.