To keep watch or vigil over (a dead body) until burial; to hold a wake over (see wake, n.1 3). Now only dialect, chiefly Anglo-Irish.
| 单词 | θ17583 |
| 释义 | the world > life > death > obsequies > [verb (transitive)] > hold wake over (3) wakec1300 To keep watch or vigil over (a dead body) until burial; to hold a wake over (see wake, n.1 3). Now only dialect, chiefly Anglo-Irish. bewakec1320 spec. To watch a corpse. Cf. wake, n.1 3. watch1526 To sit up beside (a sick person) in order to render help; to keep watch beside (a dead body). |
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