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wakener|ˈweɪk(ə)nə(r)|
Also 6 Sc. walk(y)nar, wakenar.
[f. waken v. + -er1.]
1. A person or thing that wakens or arouses. Also with up.
1513Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 109 Quhay ar wirkaris of this weir, quha walkynaris of wa. 1597Jas. VI Dæmonol. iii. iii. 67 The procurer & wakener vp of these two natural qualities. a1653Z. Boyd in Zion's Flowers (1855) Introd. 52 A verse, which..served for a wakener for to rouse me from..sleep. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xix. 689 These are the genuine wakeners or exciters of the Ferment of the Stomach. 1878C. Stanford Symb. Christ xii. 335 The soul's wakener is always Christ. 1887Smiles Life & Labour 269 Tea is another wakener-up. 1895Meredith Amazing Marr. I. xvi. 185 Delivering a wakener [i.e. a rousing blow] in unexpected quarters.
†b. spec. An alarm attached to a clock.
1564Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 308 Ane lytill knok, with ane walknar ouregilt.
2. One who awakes. rare.
1857Mrs. Gaskell C. Brontë vi. (1860) 78 She remembered the times when watchers or wakeners in the night heard the distant word of command. |