chaffing

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Pertaining to rubbing and abrasion.

   “This chaffing block has an obvious channel for fire hose and straps to attach it to the hose .”

2. sıfat Characterized by teasing and joking.

   “The P.M. at Bridge afterwards was in a very chaffing mood.”

3. sıfat Of or for chaffing (cutting hay or straw into small lengths)

   “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.”

4. fiil present participle and gerund of chaff
5. isim The act by which somebody is chaffed; a teasing.

   “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[…]”