Obs. [? cf. GOFFER.] To curl up, twist, warp. (intr. and trans.)
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Melon, The Sun will soon draw the Heat of so fresh a Bed to that Degree, that … the two first Leaves … of the Plant will twirl or coffer.
1784. J. Twamley, Dairying Exempl., 53. By the same cause that a board is made round or coffered up, by the heat of the Sun.
