ch

Abbreviation of chain (“a unit of measurement equal to 22 yards”).

Noun

  1. Abbreviation of chain (“a unit of measurement equal to 22 yards”).
  2. Abbreviation of chain (stitch)
  3. Abbreviation of channel, in reference to telephones, audio, radio, and television.
    • 5.1 ch surround sound
  4. Abbreviation of chapter (“main section of a book”).
    • Ch 2 secondarily interrupts the flow between chs 1 and 3 (see 2.1–16n.). - 2007, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, page 143:
  5. Abbreviation of chestnut (“a dark reddish-brown colored horse”).
    • NAME OF HORSE (COLOR, SEX, YEAR BORN) Secretariat (ch.s. 1970) - 2014, Kenneth Hinchcliff, Andris Kaneps, Raymond Geor, Equine Sports Medicine and Surgery, page 675:

Forms

chs

Pronoun

  1. Alternative form of I.

Origin

Apheretic form of ich or utch, ultimately from Old English iċ (“I”). Compare Dutch 'k, an apheretic variant of ik (“I”). More at ich, I.

Forms

Iche che ich 'ch- ch-

Verb

  1. Abbreviation of chain.
    • 11 tr into 3rd ch from hook, join with sl st to top of beginning ch 3 (12 tr made) […] Ch 4, sl st to 1st sl st to close. - 2011 August 23, Carmen Heffernan, “How to make colourful crocheted flowers”, in The Guardian,...