† quaferv.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To find (a thing) by feeling about.Quot. 1694 was copied as quaffer by W. Derham ( Physico-Theol. iv. xi. 192), and C. Bell (Hand 150).
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > find by other specific means
to look out?1496
to turn up1523
to bolt out1553
quafer1694
peep1819
poke-out1874
1694 Philos. Trans. 1693 (Royal Soc.) 17 990 A Duck has larger Nerves that come into their Bills than Geese or any other Bird that I have seen and therefore quafer and grope out their Meat the most.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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