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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[OF.

wastel

gastel

, F.

gâteau

, LL.

wastellus

, fr. MHG.

wastel

a kind of bread; cf. OHG. & AS.

wist

food.]

A kind of white and fine bread or cake; – called also

wastel bread

, and

wastel cake

[Obs.]

Roasted flesh or milk and

wasted

bread.

Chaucer.

The simnel bread and

wastel

cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility.

Sir W. Scott.

Noun.

A particular sort of bread; fine bread or cake.