Definition of "waftage" [waft•age]

• Conveyance on a buoyant medium, such as air or water. (noun)

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• "Surely it is the line which describes the ghosts, staying for waftage on the banks of the river, and stretching out their hands in passionate desire to the further shore:"
• "I have walked London streets for twelve and fifteen hours together without even a thought of saving my legs or my time, by paying for waftage."
• "To make the scene perfectly realistic there is a smell of breakfast cooking, not unpleasant to those within its waftage who are yet to have their appetites appeased."