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   wa·fer

   /ˈwāfər/

   noun

   • 1. a very thin, light, crisp, sweet cookie or cracker, especially one of a kind eaten with ice cream.
   • ▪ a thin disk of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist.
   • ▪ a very thin slice of a semiconductor crystal used as the substrate for solid-state circuitry.
   • ▪ a small disk of dried paste formerly used for fastening letters or holding papers together.
   • ▪ a round, thin piece of something: "a wafer of ice"

   verb

   • 1. fasten or seal (a letter or document) with a wafer. archaic

   Word Origin late Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French gaufre (see goffer), from Middle Low German wāfel ‘waffle’; compare with waffle2.

   Derivatives

   • 1. wafery adjective

   Scrabble Points: 11

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