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wafer /wāˈfər/ noun- A very thin crisp cake or biscuit baked in wafer irons or wafer tongs, formerly eaten with wine
- A similar biscuit eaten with ice cream, etc
- A thin round cake of unleavened bread, usu stamped with a cross, an Agnus Dei or the letters IHS, etc, used in the Eucharist
- A leaf of adhesive material for sealing letters, etc
- A piece of edible material used to enclose a medicinal powder, etc to be swallowed
- A thin slice of silicon on which multiple chips are formed
- A thin slice of anything
transitive verb To close, fasten, stick (eg on a wall), with a wafer ORIGIN: ONFr waufre (OFr and Fr gaufre), from MLGer wafel cake of wax wāˈfery adjective Like a wafer wafer cake noun A wafer wāˈfer-thin adjective - Very thin, usu in the order of a few millimetres thick
- (of the plot of fictional work, etc) not convincingly developed
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