Wake

proper noun

1. 1

   A surname.

   The testator, in this cause, devised and bequeathed an equal fifth part of his real estate, and of his residuary personal estate, to the plaintiff Mrs. Wake, the wife of the plaintiff Mr. Wake[…]

2. 2

   Variant of Wake CountyEllipsis of Wake County.

   Mr. Boylan was public-spirited and progressive. He first saw the possibilities, and set the example of raising great quantities of cotton on the uplands of Wake.[...]Governor Swain says of him that he was dignified and grave, and it also is sure that he must have been charitable, for he is responsible for the building of the first county poor-house in Wake.

3. 3

   Variant of Wake IslandEllipsis of Wake Island.

   This rendezvous at Wake took place on December 7, and for the next several days on board the Helena we were busy.

   It takes only a brief glimpse at a 1941 map of the Pacific to see why Wake Island was considered to be of such strategic value to the United States and why it was such an early target in Japan's program of conquest. As the war planners on both sides saw the situation in the late 1930s, possession of Wake was vital to the defense of their territory.

   This is my first time to be back on Wake in sixty-one years.