Chafe

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 72

chaf, v. t. [chafed (chaft), chafing.] To excite heat or irritation in by friction; to irritate; to fret and wear by rubbing; to provoke, inflame. — v. i. To be excited or heated; to fret; to be worn by rubbing. — n.