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Weld, Theodore Dwight (sh) and waffle(2) (iou)


Weld, Theodore Dwight (sh)




born Nov. 23, 1803, Hampton, Conn., U.S.
died Feb. 3, 1895, Hyde Park, Mass.

U.S. reformer.

He left divinity studies to become an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society (1834). His pamphlets The Bible Against Slavery (1837) and Slavery as It Is (1839) helped convert figures such as James Birney, Henry Ward Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe to the antislavery cause. He married his coworker Angelina Grimke (1838), and they directed schools and taught in New Jersey and Massachusetts. In 1841-43 Weld organized an antislavery Reference bureau in Washington, D.C., to assist congressmen seeking to repeal the gag rule restricting the consideration of antislavery petitions in Congress.


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waffle noun2. M19.
[from the verb.]
Orig. (dial.), chatter, gossip. Now (colloq.), verbose but empty or aimless talk or Writing. M19.
Boardroom The statement..is unusually blunt in comparison to the normal preference of..Ministers for waffle and equivocation.
The bark or yapping of a small dog. dial. L19.