wait-a-while

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wait-a-while - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Wait-a-while \Wait"-a-while`\, n.
     (a) One of the Australian wattle trees (Acacia   colletioides
         ), so called from the impenetrability of the
         thicket which it makes.
     (b) same as Wait-a-bit.
         [Webster 1913 Suppl.]