the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > wearisome or unrewarding > a piece of (2)
In plural. Menial tasks or conditions.
‘A small piece of domestic work, a little job, a char’ (Bartlett Dict. Americanisms); see chare, n.1 5. Formerly dialect and U.S., but more recently…