Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Waking

Waking , noun

1.
The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake.
2.
A watch; a watching. [Obsolete]
Bodily pain... standeth in prayer, in wakings, in fastings. — Chaucer
In the fourth waking of the night. — Wyclif (Matt. xiv. 25)