U.S. [a. Du. wafel: see WAFER sb.] A kind of batter-cake, baked in a waffle-iron, and eaten hot with butter or molasses.
1817. M. Birkbeck, Notes Journ. Amer. (1818), 64. Waffles (a soft hot cake of German extraction, covered with butter).
1870. D. Macrae, Amer. at Home, I. 291. The Americans are all fond of molasses; using them regularly at breakfast and supper to their buckwheat cakes and waffles.
1893. T. N. Page, In Ole Virginia, 221. He ordered waffles and hoe-cakes for breakfast.
b. Comb., as waffle party; waffle-iron, an iron utensil for baking waffles over a fire.
1808. Eliza S. Bowne, in Scribner’s Mag. (1887), II. 183/1. They are going to have a fine waffle party on Tuesday.
1882. Harper’s Mag., LXIV. April, 666/1. She tells him of ‘little waffle parties’ formed by her intimates.
1888. E. Eggleston, Graysons, xxxi. 334. She took down the long-handled waffle-irons.
1899. Academy, 11 Feb., 183/1. Toasting-forks and waffle-irons had long handles, to make endurable the blazing heat of the great logs.
