Definitions for wafts

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wafts waft

Spelling: [waft, wahft]

IPA: /wæft, wɑft/

Wafts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in wafts (afstw).

Definitions for wafts

noun

1. a sound, odor, etc., faintly perceived:
2. a wafting movement; light current or gust:
3. the act of wafting.
4. Also, waif. Nautical. a signal given by waving a flag.

verb (used with object)

1. to carry lightly and smoothly through the air or over water:
2. to send or convey lightly, as if in flight:
3. Obsolete. to signal to, summon, or direct by waving.

verb (used without object)

1. to float or be carried, especially through the air:

Origin of wafts

1535-45; back formation from late Middle English waughter armed escort vessel Dutch or Low German wachter watchman; in some senses confused with waff

Examples for wafts

I will waft you over fields and forests, over strange lands and seas.

And there a waft of soft recollections came across his mind.

Scarce a wind can blow that will not waft to you these voices.

The clinks of bits and stirrup-irons came down in a waft again.

"I don't know—they just seem to waft themselves to me," said Jim modestly.

One fragrant breath of thee is as a waft of the joys of my youth!

Here is the west wind; but only to waft the enemy into our hands.

The motion seemed to waft him off so that he knew nothing more.

What avails it me, that all the roses of Shiraz glow and waft incense for me?

You waft me from extreme to extreme, with a rapidity absolutely dizzying.