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Chafery vs Chaffery - What's the difference?

chafery | chaffery |

As nouns the difference between chafery and chaffery

is that chafery is an open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars while chaffery is traffic; bargaining.

chafery

English

Noun

(chaferies)
  • an open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.
  • *1957 : The open hearths of finery and chafery are surmounted each by a huge chimney. — H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 224.

    • chaffery

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) traffic; bargaining
    • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913)