2. To exchange; to bandy, as words. Spenser.

Chaf"fer*er (?), n. One who chaffers; a bargainer.

Chaf"fern (?), n. [See Chafe, v. t.] A vessel for heating water. [Obs.] Johnson.

Chaf"fer*y, n. Traffic; bargaining. [Obs.] Spenser.

Chaf"finch (?), n. [Cf. Chiff- chaff.] (Zo÷l.) A bird of Europe (Fringilla cťlebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.

Chaff"ing (?), n. The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.

Chaff"less, a. Without chaff.

Chaff"y (?), a. 1. Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.

Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail.

Coleridge.

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