chafe

Heat excited by friction.

Injury or wear caused by friction.

Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.

Like a wylde Bull, that, being at a bay, / Is bayted of a mastiffe and a hound / […] That in his chauffe he digs the trampled ground / And threats his horns […]

When we returned we found the poor prisoner in a terrible chafe with the sentinel for detaining him, for the guard had been true to his trust.

To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.

To fret and wear by rubbing.

to chafe a cable

To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.

the troubled Tiber chafing with her shores

[Gitche Manito] Breathed upon the neighbouring forest, / Made its great boughs chafe together, / Till in flame they burst and kindled; […]

To be worn by rubbing.

A cable chafes.