"gauffer" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: gauffers [present, singular, third-person], gauffering [participle, present], gauffered [participle, past], gauffered [past]
Etymology: From French gaufrer (“to figure cloth, velvet, and other stuffs”), from gaufre (“honeycomb, waffle”); of Germanic origin. See waffle, wafer, and compare goffer, gopher (“an animal”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|gaufrer||to figure cloth, velvet, and other stuffs}} French gaufrer (“to figure cloth, velvet, and other stuffs”), {{der|en|gem|-}} Germanic Head templates: {{en-verb}} gauffer (third-person singular simple present gauffers, present participle gauffering, simple past and past participle gauffered)
  1. (transitive) To plait, crimp, or flute; to goffer, as lace. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-gauffer-en-verb-SAL5igQN
  2. (transitive) In fine bookbinding, to decorate the edges of a text block with a heated iron. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-gauffer-en-verb-OaiMCoHv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 73

Inflected forms

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