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Definition of Chafewax

Chafewax
Chafewax Chafe"wax`, or Chaffwax Chaff"wax`, n. (Eng. Law) Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.

Meaning of Chafewax from wikipedia

- A chafe-wax, or chaff-wax, was an officer under the Lord Chancellor, whose duty it was to prepare the wax for sealing do****ents. The office was abolished...
- 'chaussier', 'chaucier', a hosier. It may have arisen from 'chaufecire', 'chafewax', i.e. a clerk of the court of Chancery whose duty consisted in affixing...
- were transferred to the Clerk of the Chamber, which were those of the Chafewax and Sealer which had previously been vested in the Pursebearer on the abolition...