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wafter

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/ ˈwɑːftə, ˈwɒf- /

noun

  1. a device that causes a draught

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Wall Street analysts noted that management forecast spending on wafter fab equipment will grow at a percentage in the high single to low double digits this year.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

Colorado C Kevin Porter was back in the lineup wafter missing two games with an upper body injury.

From Newsweek • Apr. 23, 2010

"And she carries herself like a wafter on the river," said the bargeman.

From Windsor Castle by Ainsworth, William Harrison

Strong-winged this Eagle, either wafter ready To buoy and to upbear that body great.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 13, 1890 by Various

Charon O Charon, Thou wafter of the souls to bliss or bane.

From The Mad Lover The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (3 of 10) by Beaumont, Francis