Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which wafts.
- noun A boat for passage or transport.
- noun The master of a passage-boat or transport.
- noun A sword having the flat part placed in the usual direction of the edge, blunted for exercises.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, wafts.
- noun A boat for passage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
wafts . - noun obsolete Armed
convoy orescort ship - noun obsolete An agent of the Crown with responsibility for protecting specific maritime activities, such as shipping or fishing.
Etymologies
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Examples
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BTW, trollegt, I will come down wafter you agree to the debate I laid out above and the money is deposited into an agreed account.
A New Book 2010
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Salaman bowed and went his way, and I took up a palm-leaf fan, and began to use it, not as a wafter of cool wind, but as a screen to hide my face when I spoke to Dost, and from behind which I could keep an eye on the tents, and see when any one was coming.
Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East George Manville Fenn 1870
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"And she carries herself like a wafter on the river," said the bargeman.
Windsor Castle William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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O Charon! the wafter of all souls to bliss or bane!
The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 Robert Herrick 1632
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In total the pair had put on 156 runs for the second wicket, snuffing out New Zealand's already wafter thin hopes of winning the Test and preventing the tourists winning their first series in New Zealand since 1968.
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In total the pair had put on 156 runs for the second wicket, snuffing out New Zealand's already wafter thin hopes of winning the Test and preventing the tourists winning their first series in New Zealand since 1968.
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The howler, the wafter, and the snooze-inducer ...
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- If Apple's Macbook Air is the poster-child for "form-over-function," and Lenovo's X300 its utilitarian cousin, Samsung's X360 falls somewhere in between on the 13. 3-inch wafter-thin ultraportable family tree, serving as another solid, though somewhat underwhelming choice according to TrustedReviews 'full write-up.
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- If Apple's Macbook Air is the poster-child for "form-over-function," and Lenovo's X300 its utilitarian cousin, Samsung's X360 falls somewhere in between on the 13. 3-inch wafter-thin ultraportable family tree, serving as another solid, though somewhat underwhelming choice according to TrustedReviews 'full write-up.
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- If Apple's Macbook Air is the poster-child for "form-over-function," and Lenovo's X300 its utilitarian cousin, Samsung's X360 falls somewhere in between on the 13. 3-inch wafter-thin ultraportable family tree, serving as another solid, though somewhat underwhelming choice according to TrustedReviews 'full write-up.
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