Also 6 Sc. walk(y)nar, wakenar. [f. WAKEN v. + -ER1.]
1. A person or thing that wakens or arouses. Also with up.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VIII. Prol. 109. Quhay ar wirkaris of this weir, quha walkynaris of wa.
1597. Jas. VI., Dæmonol., III. iii. 67. The procurer & wakener vp of these two natural qualities.
a. 1653. Z. Boyd, in Zion’s Flowers (1855), Introd. 52. A verse, which … served for a wakener for to rouse me from … sleep.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XIX. 689. These are the genuine wakeners or exciters of the Ferment of the Stomach.
1878. C. Stanford, Symb. Christ, xii. 335. The soul’s wakener is always Christ.
1887. Smiles, Life & Labour, 269. Tea is another wakener-up.
1895. Meredith, Amazing Marr., I. xvi. 185. Delivering a wakener [i.e., a rousing blow] in unexpected quarters.
† b. spec. An alarm attached to a clock.
1564. Reg. Privy Council Scot., I. 308. Ane lytill knok, with ane walknar ouregilt.
2. One who awakes. rare.
1857. Mrs. Gaskell, C. Brontë, vi. (1860), 78. She remembered the times when watchers or wakeners in the night heard the distant word of command.
