Definition/Meaning of cham

• English - Noun: cham (plural chams) (archaic) Archaic spelling of khan . c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii: And ſince we…
• English - Verb: cham (third-person singular simple present chams, present participle chamming, simple past and past participle chammed) (obsolete) To chew . 1531, William Tyndale, Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue: But he that repenteth toward the law of God, and at the sight of the sacrament, or of the breaking, feeling, eating, chamming , or drinking, calleth to remembrance the death of Christ, his body…
• English - Contraction: cham (West Country, contraction, obsolete) I am
• English - Anagrams: Mach
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From French cham , from Ottoman Turkish خان (han) (see there for more). Etymology 2. See chap . Etymology 3. From Middle English icham , equivalent to ch- + am, from ich + am.