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Webster 1828 Edition


Wafting

WAFTING

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ppr.
Carrying through a bouyant medium.

Definition 2024


wafting

wafting

English

Verb

wafting

  1. present participle of waft

Noun

wafting (plural waftings)

  1. An instance of wafting; the action of something that wafts.
    • 2007 January 31, Bryan Miller, “In a Yale Dining Hall, Independent Study at the Microwave”, in New York Times:
      The following afternoon they fired up an ancient wood-frame charcoal grill and laid on the pig, suffusing the quad with the sweet waftings of barbecue — that is, until the grill caught fire and collapsed.