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wafter

/ˈwɒftə(ɹ)/

wafter noun: armed convoy or escort ship.

Noun (1)

wafter (plural wafters)

  1. (obsolete) Armed convoy or escort ship
  2. (obsolete) An agent of the Crown with responsibility for protecting specific maritime activities, such as shipping or fishing.

Noun (2)

wafter (plural wafters)

  1. One who, or that which, wafts.
    • Thou wafter of the soul to bliss or bane.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
  2. A semi-bouyant hookbait designed to waft just above the lakebed.

wafter meaning in Urdu

wafter in Urdu

اڑان

Forms of wafter

pluralwafters

Origin of wafter

Alteration of Middle English waughter, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German wachter (“a guard”), from wachten (“to guard”).

From waft + -er.

Questions about wafter

What does wafter mean?
Wafter means armed convoy or escort ship.
What is wafter in Urdu?
Wafter in Urdu is اڑان. See Wafter meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is wafter?
Wafter is a noun.
How do you pronounce wafter?
Wafter is pronounced /ˈwɒftə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of wafter?
The plural of wafter is wafters.

Words near wafter in the dictionary

  1. waftage
  2. waftages
  3. wafted
  4. wafted off
  5. wafted over
  6. wafter
  7. wafters
  8. wafting
  9. wafting off
  10. wafting over
  11. waftingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wafter (page history and authors); wafter (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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