Chaffing

This chaffing block has an obvious channel for fire hose and straps to attach it to the hose .

Concede all that to be true, and at the same time he is a man of exceeding vanity and egotism, fully confident of his own capacity, and judgment and superiority to other people, and he should make the remark in a chaffing or jesting way , that Jesus Christ was a good man, but he was smarter than Christ, would consider that expression standing alone, evidence of insanity ?

The quantity of "seeds" and dust produced at a chaffing depot is variable , depending upon the nature of the hay cut and the proportion of straw added.

Grace had made Graham laugh many a time by her inimitable descriptions of the quaint tilts and chaffings of these graybeards, as each urged the views of his favorite journals[…]