WAIST

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 34

That part of the gun-deck between the fore and main masts. WAITS, the popular name for the music played in our streets on the nights of the Christmas holidays, is thought to be only a corruption of "wake," the common name for a nocturnal solemnity. (See Arc/ncul., vol. ii., GO.) WAl' [s. 1338]