Was"tel (?), n. [OF. wastel,
gastel, F. gâteau, 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.