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Chafer   Listen
noun
Chafer  n.  
1.
One who chafes.
2.
A vessel for heating water; hence, a dish or pan. "A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons."






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"Chafer" Quotes from Famous Books



... Nesta. The clerical gentleman's voice was of a depth to claim for it the profoundest which can be thought or uttered; and Nesta's tender youth had taken so strong an impression of sacredness from what Fenellan called 'his chafer tones,' that her looks were often given him in gratitude, for the mere sound. Nataly also had her sense of safety in acquiescing to such a voice coming from such a garb. Consequently, whenever Fenellan and Colney were at him, drawing him this ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... the former: and birds of all kinds were very scarce, although I obtained a few good ones, including one or two of the above-mentioned rarities. I was much pleased to get here the fine long-armed chafer, Euchirus longimanus. This extraordinary insect is rarely or never captured except when it comes to drink the sap of the sugar palms, where it is found by the natives when they go early in the morning to take away the bamboos ...
— The Malay Archipelago - Volume I. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace



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