Harefield Gazette

WORD WIZARD

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Here is an unusual word with three definition­s, only one of which is correct. Can you identify the right definition?

GOFFER

1) A game akin to backgammon but played on a board of 256 squares using fifty counters; 2) To pleat, crimp or make wavy either fabric or paper; 3) An eighteenth century word for a simpleton or dunderhead.

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