What is "chafers"

Usage examples of "chafers".

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tell you what, boss, I'll take the ice tubs, the chafers, and the last of the serving dishes.

They'd lit the burners under the chafers and lugged in the hot platters.