[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That chafes; in various senses of the vb.
1539. St. Papers, in Froude, Hist. Eng. (1880), III. 433. He is so hawte & chafing that men be afeared to speak to him.
1561. Hollybush, Hom. Apoth., 27 b. Let hym eate no … chafynge or inflamynge meate.
1762. Churchill, Ghost, III. Wks. 1774, II. 55. Not quite so fast as Terror rides When He the chafing winds bestrides.
1843. J. Martineau, Chr. Life (1867), 239. The miseries of a blank and chafing mind.
1865. Livingstone, Zambesi, xii. 251. To spill us all into the chafing river.
