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Word entry · 5 letters

wafer

Best crossword clue

"Thin crisp cookie"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈweɪ̯fəː/Part of speech nounSorted aefrwStarts with WEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)

Word origin

From Middle English wafre, from Anglo-Norman wafre, waufre (Old French gaufre), from a Germanic source. Compare Middle Low German wāfel, Middle Dutch wafel (“honeycomb”), West Flemish wafer. See also waffle.

Used in a sentence

  • The house supplied him with a wafer for his present purpose, with which, having sealed his letter, he returned hastily towards the brook side, in order to search for the things which he had there lost.
  • [M]y Father, who knew he was well, wafered the paragraph upon a sheet of paper, and sent to his Lodgings.
  • [T]he beginning of de Barral's end became manifest to the public in the shape of a half-sheet of note-paper wafered by the four corners on the closed door […].

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