Definition of "wakener" [wak•en•er]

• One who wakens. (noun)

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• "They also put down a black dainty called, they say, caviar, and made of the eggs of fish, a great thirst – wakener."
• "It acts as a stimulus or wakener to the old ideas sleeping beneath the surface."
• "Light as ever on his pins, he now and then varied his attentions to the yeasty part, delivering a wakener in unexpected quarters: masterly as the skilled cook's carving of a joint with hungry guests for admirers."