chaffed
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.51 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of chaff
Example Sentences
- "Chaffed food, or "lick," as it is termed here, causes both milk and butter to be sweeter and of better quality, and free from taste of turnips."
- "Straw (usually oat-, but at times wheat- or bean-straw) is often given during winter, and hay in spring when hard work begins; but the best results are obtained by using a chaffed mixture of hay and straw throughout the winter season."
- "A visitor mentioned that if horses had to be placed on a chaffed straw diet, a small quantity of pollard would prevent scouring."