Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A portable or wearable timepiece. · The act of guarding and observing someone or something. · A particular time period when guarding is kept. · A period of wakefulness between the two sleeps of a biphasic sleep pattern (the dead sleep or first sleep and morning sleep or second sleep): the first waking.
As a noun, from Middle English wacche, from Old English wæċċe. See below for verb form.
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This page abbreviates 6 auxiliary source items. The etymology narrative is not shortened. Omission counts are available in the audit fields below; consult the original for complete auxiliary material.
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