Definition of "ch" []

• Chain (measurement) (abbreviation)
• Check (chess) (abbreviation)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The term ch'ao , "with its aspiration, low rising tone and all cannot be translated into English," we're told."
• "The term château, or castle, used in this narrative was applied to a kind of grassy platform at the top."
• "He might even wonder why the French word châtrer had anything at all to do with little ol 'him ... when, clearly, with the prefix "chat," does this emasculating mot begin!"