(Dutch wafel.) A wafer; a soft indented cake baked in an iron utensil on coals.
·noun A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer. II. Waffle ·noun A soft indented cake cooked in a...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
(Dutch wafelyzen.) A wafer-iron; a utensil for baking waffles. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.