Trivia 1-16-19 Sounds so cute

[Trivia Master]

What is a Baby waker?

credit: @Seduzal

 

[hughes]

the first shot of a cannonade

 

[BlueNGrey]

Sherman, set the wabac machine to July 5th, 2007.
Baby Waker Term used in reference to the first shot of a cannonade.
civilwartalk.com/threads/baby-waker.7769/

 

[Copperhead-mi]

The first shot of a cannonade is my answer but it's also a Russian Imperial Stout style beer brewed by Monocacy Brewing Co. in Frederick, MD.

 

[captaindrew]

The first shot of a cannonade

 

[Jimklag]

What is a Baby waker?

credit: @Seduzal

Baby Waker is the first shot in an artillery bombardment or cannonade.

 

[DBF]

1st shot of a cannonade
https://www.civilwarhome.com/terms.html

 

[Steph-GB]

It's a wheeled frame in which a baby is suspended in a harness and can move itself about a room with its feet.

Helps with the transition of crawling to walking ​

 

[Steph-GB]

It's a wheeled frame in which a baby is suspended in a harness and can move itself about a room with its feet.​

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Helps with the transition of crawling to walking ​

Totally read the question wrong erghh my new answer ...

Baby WAKER.. (not Walker haha!)

Term used in reference to the first shot of a cannonade

 

[luinrina]

I suppose it's called a baby waker because the sudden thunder would wake sleeping babies.

A baby waker is the first shot of an artillery cannonade.

Sources: https://civilwartalk.com/threads/baby-waker.7769/, https://www.civilwarhome.com/terms.html, A Buff Looks at the American Civil War by Shon Powers (p. 392)


In addition, it seems, some units also named one of their cannons "Baby Waker".

Source: Sumter After the First Shots by Derek Smith (p. 106), City of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War
by John Strausbaugh

 

[SWMODave]

Term used in reference to the first shot of a cannonade.

Source

 

[FarawayFriend]

With reference to the Civil War it probably is (and this is my final answer):

The first shot of a cannonade
Source: https://civilwartalk.com/threads/baby-waker.7769/

But then again, it could also be a beer … Monocacy was a battlefield also

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/monocacy-blank-slate-17-baby-waker/408688/

 

[ErnieMac]

The first shot of an artillery cannonade.

 

[GS]

The first shot of a cannonade.

 

[LoyaltyOfDogs]

A cannonade.

Edit - The term refers specifically to the first shot, not the entire cannonade. I guess the idea was that the first shot would be the one that would wake a sleeping baby. The baby would already be awake when all subsequent shots were fired.

hoosier

 

[Stony]

Term used in reference to the first shot of a cannonade.

 

[WJC]

What is a Baby waker?

credit: @Seduzal

The first or opening shot in a volley of artillery fire.

 

[Schwallanscher]

the first shot of a cannonade

 

[Wallyfish]

Term used in reference to the first shot of a cannonade.

Source. CivilWarTalk "B" terms.

 

[Brenal]

baby-waker-
slang expression among 19th-Century American artillerymen, for the first shot fired in any cannonade.

http://moultrie.battlefieldsinmotion.com/glossary.html