Chaffing

"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[…]"

"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."