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chafer
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Word definitions for chafer in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cockchafer \Cock"chaf`er\, n. [See Chafer the beetle.] (Zo["o]l.) A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. Melolontha vulgaris ) and allied genera; -- called also May bug , chafer , or dorbeetle .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
kind of beetle, Old English ceafor "beetle, cock-chafer," from Proto-Germanic *kabraz- (cognates: Old Saxon kevera , Dutch kever , Old High German chevar , German Käfer ), literally "gnawer," from PIE *gep(h)- "jaw, mouth" (see jowl (n.1)).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 One who chafes. 2 A vessel for heating water; hence, a dish or pan. Etymology 2 n. Any of several scarab beetles, including the cockchafer, leaf chafer and rose chafer
Usage examples of chafer.
That was an evening of rare beauty, and warm enough already for an early chafer to go blooming in the dusk.
A chafer buzzed by, a small black cat played with its tail on some steps in a recess.
At certain seasons the wind from the north that was called the Chafer scoured the stuff free and hurled it high overhead, where it stained the clouds for days, and tinted the rainfall a fine lavender hue.
But winds, Etowan Elacca knew, had a way of changing their courses, and perhaps the Chafer had chosen to visit a different side of the Rift this year.
There was just the barking of a dog, the boom of migrating chafers, the song of the stream, and of the owls, to proclaim the beating in the heart of this sweet Night.
Amongst the soft green pods of a kind of poplar chafers buzzed, and numbers of their little brown bodies were strewn on the path.
Walking home along the river wall, with the singing of the larks and thrushes, the rush of waters, the humming of the chafers in his ears, he felt that he would make something fine of this subject.
Julian got the chafers going and set up the electrified serving platters.
The faint and frail Cathedral chimes Spake time in music, and we heard The chafers rustling in the limes.
I own to a boyish pleasure in seeing the clouds of brown chafers in early summer clustering on the maple hedges and keeping up a continual burring.
Midsummer, as I was fishing and watching the glimmer chafers in the great fishpool above our moat, with Rosamond and our loved Jacinth by my side, that a rider appeared before the drawbridge, charged with a message from King Edward, commanding me to attend him forthwith at Malvern Magna, whither he had journeyed accompanied by his Queen, his son the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Elizabeth.
Amongst the soft green pods of a kind of poplar chafers buzzed, and numbers of their little brown bodies were strewn on the path.
Julian got the chafers going and set up the electrified serving platters.
That area, Eliot said as I directed the food into the chafers, had been the minstrels' gallery.
We'd take the same chafers and electrified hot platters that we'd used the previous evening, along with packaged, chilled salad ingredients.