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lyke wake

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lyke wake /lʌɪk/

▶noun Brit. a night spent watching over a dead body.

– origin ME: from lyke (from OE līc ‘body’: cf. lychgate) + wake1.

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