chafe

Definition

Heat excited by friction.

Etymology

From Middle English chaufen (“to warm”), borrowed from Old French chaufer (modern French chauffer), from Latin calefacere, calfacere (“to make warm”), from calere (“to be warm”) + facere (“to make”). See caldron.

Example Sentences

• "Like a wylde Bull, that, being at a bay, / Is bayted of a mastiffe and a hound / […] That in his chauffe he digs the trampled ground / And threats his horns […]"
• "When we returned we found the poor prisoner in a terrible chafe with the sentinel for detaining him, for the guard had been true to his trust."