wafter
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Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Alteration of Middle English waughter, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German wachter (“a guard”), from wachten (“to guard”).
Noun[edit]
wafter (plural wafters)
- (obsolete) Armed convoy or escort ship
- (obsolete) An agent of the Crown with responsibility for protecting specific maritime activities, such as shipping or fishing.
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
wafter (plural wafters)
- One who, or that which, wafts.
- 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Mad Lover”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i:
- Thou wafter of the soul to bliss or bane.
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