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goffer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun goffer has 3 senses
- goffer(n = noun.person) gopher - a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman); Array is a kind of busy bee, eager beaver, live wire, sharpie, sharpy
- goffer(n = noun.artifact) gauffer, gauffering iron, goffering iron - an iron used to press pleats and ridges; Array is a kind of iron, smoothing iron
- goffer(n = noun.artifact) gauffer - an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats; Array is a kind of flounce, frill, furbelow, ruffle
Verb goffer has 1 sense
- goffer(v = verb.body) gauffer - make wavy with a heated goffering iron; "goffer the trim of the dress" is one way to wave
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
goffer, v. & n.
--v.tr.
1 make wavy, flute, or crimp (a lace edge, a trimming, etc.) with heated irons.
2 (as goffered adj.) (of the edges of a book) embossed.
--n.
1 an iron used for goffering.
2 ornamental plaiting used for frills etc.
--v.tr.
1 make wavy, flute, or crimp (a lace edge, a trimming, etc.) with heated irons.
2 (as goffered adj.) (of the edges of a book) embossed.
--n.
1 an iron used for goffering.
2 ornamental plaiting used for frills etc.
Etymology
F gaufrer stamp with a patterned tool f. gaufre honeycomb, rel. to WAFER, WAFFLE(2)
THESAURUS
goffer
aqueduct, canal, canalization, canalize, carve, chamfer, channel, chisel, corrugate, crack, crimp, cut, dado, dike, ditch, engrave, entrenchment, flute, fosse, furrow, gash, gouge, groove, gully, gutter, ha-ha, incise, kennel, moat, pleat, plow, rabbet, rifle, rut, score, scratch, slit, streak, striate, sunk fence, trench, trough, wrinkle
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