chafing
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English [edit]
Verb [edit]
chafing
- Present participle of chafe.
Noun [edit]
chafing (plural chafings)
- The act by which something is chafed.
- 1853, The Popular Educator: Volume 3 (page 325)
- The constant and irresistible pressure of such a ponderous mass in motion must occasion certain rubbings and chafings against the rugged bottoms and projecting sides of the rocks amid which they move.
- 1853, The Popular Educator: Volume 3 (page 325)
