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wafters

wafters is the plural of wafter.

Meaning of wafter

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.

Questions about wafters

What is wafters the plural of?
Wafters is the plural of wafter.

Words near wafters in the dictionary

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

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