waftage

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/ˈwɒftɪd͡ʒ/

noun

Conveyance, transportation on a buoyant medium, such as air or water. The act of being wafted.

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Meanings

nounwaftage (countable and uncountable, plural waftages)

plural waftages

  1. countabledateduncountableConveyance, transportation on a buoyant medium, such as air or water. The act of being wafted.

    The Ships appointed vvherein they ſhould goe, / And Boats prepar'd for vvaftage to and fro.

    1627, Michaell [i.e., Michael] Drayton, “The Battaile of Agincourt”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for William Lee, […], →OCLC, page 19
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    […] I ſtalke about her doore / Like a ſtrange ſoule upon the Stigian bankes / Staying for waftage.

    c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], column 2

Origin

From waft + -age.

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APA

waftage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/waftage

MLA

“waftage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/waftage. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “waftage,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/waftage.

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