WAFTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wafture mean? 

• WAFTURE (noun)
  The noun WAFTURE has 1 sense:

1. the act of signaling by a movement of the hand

  Familiarity information: WAFTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAFTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of signaling by a movement of the hand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

wafture; wave; waving

Hypernyms ("wafture" is a kind of...):

gesture; motion (the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wafture"):

brandish; flourish (the act of waving)

 Context examples 

It seemed a glow to him, a warm and trailing vapor, ever beyond his reaching, though sometimes he was rewarded by catching at shreds of it and weaving them into phrases that echoed in his brain with haunting notes or drifted across his vision in misty wafture of unseen beauty.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)