charier

A rare, largely archaic spelling variant of charrier (to cart, to carry along) — modern French almost always uses the double-r form charrier, whether for the literal sense of hauling or transporting, or the informal sense of exaggerating and teasing. You're unlikely to encounter charier outside older texts or dialect.

• La rivière charie du bois flotté après l'orage. — The river carries driftwood after the storm.
• Ce vieux texte charie encore des tournures moyenâgeuses. — This old text still carries traces of medieval phrasing.
• On chariait le grain jusqu'au moulin. — The grain used to be carted to the mill.

Don't treat charier as a separate verb from charrier with its own distinct meaning — it's simply an older spelling of the same word, and modern dictionaries and spellcheckers will flag it in favor of charrier.

Often confused with charrier.