chafe
verb (used with object)
to wear or abrade by rubbing.
unchafed
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a word derived from
chafe.
Example Sentences
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Are formed of clean, unchafed yarns, drawn from condemned rope, unlaid.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
