Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CHAF'ER-Y
CHAF'ER-Y, n. [from chafe.]
In iron works, a force in which an ancony or square mass of iron, hammered into a bar in the middle, with its ends rough, is reduced to a complete bar, by hammering down the ends to the shape of the middle. – Encyc.
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