(n.) A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan.
(n.) A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study was made of certain cations present in hemolymph and alimentary tract tissues of healthy and diseased European chafer larvae and the spores of Bacillus popilliae collected from diseased hemolymph.
Chafery
Definition:
(v. t.) An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.