Obs. Also 5 wafrun, 6 waffron, 5–6 wafroun (Sc. vafrown). [a. AF. *wafron, augm. of wafre WAFER sb.] = WAFER sb. 1.

1

c. 1390[?].  Form of Cury (1780), 8. Take obleys other wafrouns in stede of loseyns, and cowche in dyshes.

2

c. 1420.  Liber Cocorum (1862), 22. Take obles and wafrons.

3

c. 1475.  Pict. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 789/1. Hec nebula, Hec gafra, a wafrun.

4

1486.  Engl. Misc. (Surtees), 57. And y’ schall it snaw by craft to be made of waffrons in maner or snaw.

5

1496.  Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 323. Item,… giffin to a man that brocht wafrounis to the King, ix s.

6

1572.  J. Jones, Bathes Buckstone, 9 b. And into diuers formes these graines may be reduced,… some betwene yrons, as wafrons.

7

  attrib.  1512.  Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., IV. 358. Item, to Disart wafrone sellar, xiiij s. Ibid. (1538–9), VII. 140. Item, deliverit to Murdo Striveling, patesser, to by foure vafrown irnis to the quenis grace, vj li.

8

  Hence † Wafroner = WAFERER.

9

1457–8.  Mem. Fountains (Surtees), III. 59. Roto Waf.roner, vj d.

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