Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CHAFE, v.i.

1. To be excited or heated; to rage; to fret; to be in violent action. – Pope.
2. To act violently upon, by rubbing; to fret against, as waves against a shore. The troubled Tyber chafing with his shores. – Shak.
3. To be fretted and worn by nabbing; as, a cable chafes.