waftage
English
Noun
waftage (countable and uncountable, plural waftages)
- Conveyance on a buoyant medium, such as air or water.
- Drayton
- Boats prepared for waftage to and fro.
- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (act 3, scene 2)
- I stalk about her door,
Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks
Staying for waftage.
- I stalk about her door,
- Drayton
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for waftage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)