n.
- a thin, light, crisp sweet biscuit.
- a thin disc of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist.
- a disc of red paper stuck on a legal document as a seal.
▸historical a small disc of dried paste formerly used for fastening letters or holding papers together.
- Electronics a very thin slice of a semiconductor crystal used as the substrate for solid-state circuitry.
Derivative
Etymology
ME: from an Anglo-Norman Fr. var. of OFr. gaufre (see goffer), from Mid. Low Ger. wāfel ‘waffle’; cf. waffle2.