Chafing

Verb

1. Present participle of chafe

Full definition of chafing

Noun

1. The act by which something is chafed.
• 1853, The Popular Educator: Volume 3 (page 325)The constant and irresistible pressure of such a ponderous mass in motion must occasion certain rubbings and chafings against the rugged bottoms and projecting sides of the rocks amid which they move.