Chafewax \Chafe"wax`\, or Chaffwax \Chaff"wax`\, n. (Eng. Law) Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents. [1913 Webster]
CHAFEWAX, Eng, law. An officer in chancery who fits the wax for sealing, to the writs, commissions and other. instruments then made to be issued out. He is probably so called because he warms (chaufe) the wax.