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waca

waca, waccha [ME wake, wacche < AS wacu, wæcce] 1 guard duty, look-out, watch (in quot. in phr. warda et ~a; v. et. vigilia 1b). c1206 faciendo et wardam et waccham in villa S. Eadmundi sicut alii liberi homines faciunt Bury St. Edm. 174. 2 watch kept (at night) over or for dead person (v. et. vigilia 5). 1086 H. decanus retulit denarios quos acceperat de sepulturis, de wacis, de signis sonatis, et de toto quod accipitur pro mortuo Regesta 32.

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