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Waker

Waker \Wak"er\, n. One who wakes.

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waker

Etymology 1 a. (context now chiefly UK dialectal English) watchful; vigilant; alert. Etymology 2

n. One who wakes somebody or something.

WordNet
waker
  1. n. someone who rouses others from sleep [syn: rouser, arouser]

  2. a person who awakes; "an early waker"

Usage examples of "waker".

There was a little ritual grumbling when the wakers emerged to an unlit fire and this was followed by a vague presumption that he had probably gone to fetch water from a nearby stream.

Wal issued wakers to all when he himself dozed off just before a blink.

Gray-haired Admirals gulped wakers and pored over reports of the brief but tragic battle.

Waker was in a conscientious objectors' camp in Maryland, and Walt was somewhere in the Pacificor on his way therewith a field-artillery unit.

William had jumped immediately from his seat and rushed to the place where Pacificus of Tivoli and the waker were now laying Malachi on the ground, unconscious.