[f. WAFER sb.] trans. To fasten with a wafer. Also with on, up.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), V. 243. Wafer’d on, as an after-written introduction to the paragraphs which follow.
1775. Mme. D’Arblay, Early Diary, 4 March. My father … wafered the paragraph upon a sheet of paper, and sent it to his lodgings.
1822. Bp. Ryder, in Mrs. Crane, Rec. Life W. H. Havergal (1882), 34. I enclose … a letter which you may read and then wafer or seal.
1835. Dickens, Sk. Boz, Private Theatres. Such are the written placards wafered up in the gentlemen’s dressing-room.
1848. Thackeray, Roundabout Ride, Wks. 1898, VI. 588. Cards of lodgings wafered into the rickety bow-windows.
1861. Sala, Dutch Pict., xiii. 202. [He] had wafered the page of the book containing his lesson against the doctor’s desk.
1874. Spurgeon, Treas. David, xci. 9, 10, IV. 235. My curiosity led me to read a paper which was wafered up in a shoemaker’s window.
