To cause trouble or disturbance.
1848.
| This goin’ ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur, | |
| An’ ef it worn’t fer wakin’ snakes, I ’d home again short meter. | |
Lowell, ‘Biglow Papers,’ No. 2. |
1852. Wake snakes and come to judgment—the times are big with the fate of nations.—Mr. Brown of Mississippi, House of Repr., March 30: Cong. Globe, p. 359, App.
