Sc. [By-form of CHAFER, CHAUFFER, ad. mod.F. chauffoir, f. chauffer to heat.] A small portable furnace, or chafing dish.
1756. Mrs. Calderwood, Journ. (1884), 130. His tea-kettle boiling on a choffer.
1860–8. Chambers, Encycl., s.v. Balloon, Heated by an iron choffer.
1885. Sir R. Christison, Autobiog., I. ii. 60. We proceeded to kindle our choffer.
