Word Meanings - GOFFER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To plait, flute, or crimp. See Gauffer. Clarke. (more info) Etym:

Related words: (words related to GOFFER)

• PLAIT
  of plicare to fold, akin to plectere to plait. See Ply, and cf. Plat 1. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait. The plaits and foldings of the drapery. Addison. 2. A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat. Polish plait. Same
• FLUTED
  1. Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes. Busby. 2. Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.
• CRIMPER
  One who, or that which, crimps; as: A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape. A device for giving hair a wavy apperance. A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
• CRIMPY
  Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.
• CRIMPAGE
  The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.
• GAUFFERING
  A mode of plaiting or fluting. Gauffering iron, a kind of fluting iron for fabrics. -- Gauffering press , a press for crimping the leaves and petals into shape.
• FLUTEMOUTH
  A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.
• CRIMPLE
  To cause to shrink or draw together; to contract; to curl. Wiseman.
• GAUFFER
  To plait, crimp, or flute; to goffer, as lace. See Goffer. (more info) stuffs, fr. gaufre honeycomb, waffle; of German origin. See Waffle,
• FLUTER
  1. One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist. 2. One who makes grooves or flutings.
• PLAITED
  Folded; doubled over; braided; figuratively, involved; intricate; artful. Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides. Shak.
• FLUTE A BEC
  A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.
• PLAITER
  One who, or that which, plaits.
• CRIMP
  To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc. Crimping house, a low lodging house, into which men are decoyed and plied with drink, to induce them to ship
• FLUTE
  A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n. 3. A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material,
• SCRIMPINGLY
  In a scrimping manner.
• SCRIMPTION
  A small portion; a pittance; a little bit. Halliwell.
• REPLAIT
  To plait or fold again; to fold, as one part over another, again and again.
• SCRIMPING
  a. & n. from Scrimp, v. t. Scrimping bar, a device used in connection with a calico printing machine for stretching the fabric breadthwise so that it may be smooth for printing. Knight.
• SCRIMPNESS
  The state of being scrimp.