Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Chafery

Chafery , noun

[See Chafe, transitive verb]

(Iron Works) An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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