CHAFING
chafing
(noun) soreness or irritation of the skin caused by friction
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
chafing
present participle of chafe
Noun
chafing (plural chafings)
The act by which something is chafed.
Source: Wiktionary
Chaf"ing, n. Etym: [See Chafe, v. t.]
Definition: The act of rubbing, or wearing by friction; making by rubbing.
Chafing dish, a dish or vessel for cooking on the table, or for
keeping food warm, either by coals, by a lamp, or by hot water; a
portable grate for coals.
– Chafing gear (Naut.), any material used to protect sails,
rigging, or the like, at points where they are exposed to friction.
CHAFE
Chafe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chafed; p pr. & vb. n. Chafing.] Etym:
[OE. chaufen to warm, OF. chaufer, F. chauffer, fr. L. calefacere,
calfacere, to make warm; calere to be warm + facere to make. See
Caldron.]
1. To ecxite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and
make warm.
To rub her temples, and to chafe her skin. Spenser.
2. To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
Her intercession chafed him. Shak.
3. To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable.
Two slips of parchment which she sewed round it to prevent its being
chafed. Sir W. Scott.
Syn.
– To rub; fret; gall; vex; excite; inflame.
Chafe, v. i.
Definition: To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by
friction.
Made its great boughs chafe together. Longfellow.
The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores. Shak.
2. To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes.
3. To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be
irritated. Spenser.
He will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter. Shak.
Chafe, n.
1. Heat excited by friction.
2. Injury or wear caused by friction.
3. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
The cardinal in a chafe sent for him to Whitehall. Camden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition