gauffer

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English

Etymology

From French gaufrer (“to figure cloth, velvet, and other stuffs”), from gaufre (“honeycomb, waffle”); of Germanic origin. See waffle, wafer, and compare goffer, gopher (“an animal”).

Verb

gauffer (third-person singular simple present gauffers, present participle gauffering, simple past and past participle gauffered)

  1. (transitive) To plait, crimp, or flute; to goffer, as lace.
  2. (transitive) In fine bookbinding, to decorate the edges of a text block with a heated iron.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gauffer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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