chauffe-lit, n.m., (—, or —-—s) bed-warmer.
chauffe-pieds, n.m., (—) foot-warmer.
chauffer, v.a., to heat, to warm; to excite. — un vaisseau; (nav.) to bream a ship. — un poste; (milit.) to keep up a sharp fire on a post. — quelqu’un; to pay any one off.
se chauffer, v.r., to warm one’s self. Ne pas se — du même bois; not to be of the same way of thinking. Savoir de quel bois on se chauffe; to know what stuff anyone is made of.
chauffer, v.n., to be heating, to grow hot; to be brewing; to be urgent, pressing; (of a steam engine) to get up steam. Ce n’est pas pour vous que le four chauffe; there is nothing for you.
chaufferette (shô-frèt), n.f., foot-warmer (in the house); chafing-dish.
chaufferie, n.f., chafery, stoke-hole.
chauffeur, n.m., fireman, stoker, chauffeur; bellows-blower; (fig.) braggart, humbug.
chauffoir, n.m., warming-place; warm cloth; heater.