cha-
(Latin: to make warm, heat)
chafe
1. To warm something, especially the hands or other parts of the body, by rubbing.
2. Warmth, wear, or soreness produced by friction.
3. Annoyance; vexation.
4. To become sore or worn by rubbing, or to make something sore or worn in this way.
5. To rub something, causing friction.
6. Etymology: from Latin calefacere, "to make hot, to make warm"; from calere, "to be warm".
chafer
1. A container for heating water; hence, a dish or a pan.
2. Someone who chafes.
chafing dish
A metal dish or pan mounted above a heating device and used to cook food or to keep it warm at the table.
chauffer
A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.
chauffeur, chauffeurs; chauffeured, chauffeuring
1. Someone who is employed to drive a private automobile.
2. To drive someone from place to place in a car, or to be employed to drive a car for someone.
3. Etymology: originally "a motorist," from French, literally, "stoker"; operator of a steam engine, a French nickname for early motorists, from
chauffer "to heat"; from Old French
chaufer.
The first motor-cars were steam-driven. The sense of "professional" or "paid driver of a private motor car" is from about 1902.