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dozing

noun C2
  1. A light sleep.

Plural dozings

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At last waking up, and moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal, and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 4 · B2
She felt that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, “Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?” when suddenly, thump!
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 4 · B2

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