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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wastel  \Was"tel\,  n.  [OF.  wastel,  gastel,  F.  g[^a]teau,  LL 
  wastellus  fr  MHG.  wastel  a  kind  of  bread;  cf  OHG.  &  AS 
  wist  food.] 
  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. 

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