Wak"ing, n.
1.
The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake.
2.
A watch; a watching.
[Obs.] "Bodily pain . . . standeth in prayer, in
wakings, in fastings."
Chaucer.
In the fourth waking of the night.
Wyclif (Matt. xiv. 25).
© Webster 1913.