gauffre

plural gauffres

1. archaicA gopher, especially the pocket gopher.

   There, too, may be seen the “barking-wolf” and the “swift fox.” It is the favourite home of the marmots, and the gauffres or sand-rats; and there, too, the noblest of animals, the horse, runs wild.

   1854, Thomas Mayne Reid, chapter 1, in The Young Voyageurs

2. archaicA waffle.

   It had the same laxness in texture that all organic structures seem to have upon the moon; it tasted rather like a gauffre or a damp meringue, but in no way was it disagreeable.

   1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter XIII, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC, page 150