gauffre

noun2

1. •
   (no longer used) A waffle.

   • It had the same laxness in texture that all organic structures seem to have upon the moon; it tasted rather like a gauffre or a damp meringue, but in no way was it disagreeable. — 1900
2. •
   (no longer used) A gopher, especially the pocket gopher.

   • There, too, may be seen the “barking-wolf” and the “swift fox.” It is the favourite home of the marmots, and the gauffres or sand-rats; and there, too, the noblest of animals, the horse, runs wild. — 1854