Category:Wastel

Was"tel, n. Etym: [of. wastel, gastel, f. gâteau, ll. wastellus, fr. Mhg. wastel a kind of bread; cf. Ohg. & as. wist food.]

Defn: a kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel Bread, and wastel cake. [obs.] Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables Of the highest nobility. Sir w. Scott.