waffeting

Updated: May 15, 2025

He was ordered to retire to Esher; and, "at the taking of his barge," Cavendish saw no less than a thousand boats full of men and women of the city of London, "waffeting up and down in Thames," to see him sent, as they expected, to the Tower.

James Anthony Froude - The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)