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CHAFTED, CHAFTIT, adj. Jawed, in combs. such as (1) big-chafted (Bnff.2, Abd.2 1939); (2) thin-chaftit (Id.); (3) chandler chafted, see Chandler.(1) Sc. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxii.:
He was a big-chafted, ruddy, lusty man.(2) Rxb. a.1860 J. Younger Autobiog. (1881) xxix.:
To keep up the combustion on us puir, thin-chaftit skeletons, tax-drained dry till we'll hardly burn ava.
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