Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to beat, to thrash; thus chafed, beaten; chafing, a beating.

1674		Head Canting Academy (2nd edn) 171: Chaft Beaten or hang’d.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew.
1725		New Canting Dict.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Chafed, well beaten.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1865		Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 133/2: Squib ’az dun a ’ell uv a lot o’ ‘sturbin,’ an’ ’e wur soa bloody skaired o’ t’ ‘chaiffen’ evvry tyme ’e wur ‘collared,’ that he played ‘foxy’ wen in ‘stur’.