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waffle iron

noun

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  1. A cooking appliance, with hinged, indented metal plates, used to make waffles.

    • Such a one is very apt to leave his impress upon his scholars, as the waffle-iron is impressed upon the cake that is baked in it.
    • These batter-based flat cakes gained a new form of popularity in America when Thomas Jefferson returned from his stint in France as a diplomat. In 1789 he presented his friends with a long-handled waffle iron.

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