CHAFERY, noun In Iron works, a forge in which an ancony or square mass of iron, hammered into a bar in the middle, with its ends rough, is reduced to a complete bar, by hammering down the ends to the shape of the middle.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.