noun, feminine/a.ba.ʃo.ve/plural: abat-chauvées
pulled wool of low quality, generally detached from the animal's skin by a lime treatment
Littré notes that the verb chauver appears in Rabelais; its usual form is chauvir, a verb that only appears In the expression chauvir de l’oreille, ‘to prick up one’s ears’, with reference to an animal.