waffle iron

Definition

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

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "I remember once of buying a waffle-iron of him, and when I tried it and found it did not make a pretty pattern on the waffles, I took it back to him to change it: but having no other pattern, he returned me the money as soon as I asked him."
• "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."