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wafer
Part of speech: NounA thin cake or biscuit; a thin cake of unleavened bread used in the Communion service in certain churches; a disk of adhesive paper, paste, etc., for sealing documents, etc.
Usage examples "wafer":- At last all parties laughed aloud, and Mr Tooke handed Hugh his wafer- glass, and bade him wafer up his letter, and by all means send it. - "The Crofton Boys", Harriet Martineau.
- They give him a slice of bread a little larger than a dollar and as thin as a wafer. - "Holland, v. 1 (of 2)", Edmondo de Amicis.
- But near the instep there is a small circular wafer of paper with the shopman's hieroglyphics upon it. - "Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes", Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.