Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A maker or seller of wafers, either for the table or for eucharistic use. See
wafer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A dealer in the cakes called wafers; a confectioner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A maker of
wafers .
Etymologies
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wafer + -er
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Examples
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(archimacherus), under-cooks, a waferer or maker of sweets, a scullion or swiller (who is otherwise described as a quistron), and knaves, or boys for preparing the meat; and all these had their special functions and implements.
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& {th} e waferer must brynge Cou {er} payns for to s {er} ue owt his wafers.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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At the servants’ table, besides the waiters and other attendants on the principal board, mentioned by Harrison, sat the master-cook, the pantler, the steward or major-domo, the butler, the cellarman, the waferer, and others.
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