† wafforen.
Obsolete. rare.
? A drone.
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1436 Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 174 They..souketh the thryfte awey oute of oure honde, As the waffore [v.r. waspe] soukethe honye fro the bee.
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