'Wait-a-while' definitions:

Definition of 'Wait-a-while'

From: GCIDE

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.]