Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗adv
Slightly turned or opened.
adj
Slightly turned or opened.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.
From Middle English ajar, on char (“on [the] turn”), from on (“on”) + char (“turn, occasion”), from Old English ċierr, cyrr (“turn”), from ċierran (“to turn, convert”), equivalent to a- + char. Akin to Scots char, chare (“to turn, cause to turn”), Dutch akerre, kier (“ajar”), German kehren (“to turn”). See char.
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