Chafewax

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:



  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.