Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fish, such as the lake trout, that lives in a lake.
- noun A ship used on lakes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A player; an actor.
- noun On the Erie Canal, a large canal-boat, one that could be towed on the Great Lakes with safety.
- noun A log-driver whose work is chiefly on lakes.
- noun One of the Lake School of poetry: generally used contemptuously. Also
Lakist . - noun A fish of or taken from a lake; specifically, the lake-trout of North America, Salvelinus (Cristivomer) namaycush. See
lake-trout , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the poets of the Lake school. See Lake poets, under
lake , n. - noun (Zoöl.) A fish living in, or taken from, a lake, esp. the namaycush.
- noun A lake steamer or canal boat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
player ; anactor . - noun nautical, North America A
ship used on theGreat Lakes . - noun A
wharfman who resides near a lake.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Orion: That was indeed a Champlain laker that came from down around Kingsland Bay.
Trick-Or-Treat Trolling John Merwin 2008
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Supporters note that the new lock, which enjoys bipartisan support, would be built to serve the "laker" fleet.
JSOnline.com 2009
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Years in the making, the proposal is coming to a head as Great Lakes legislators, including Minnesota's Jim Oberstar, work furiously behind the scenes to temporarily exempt many of the inland "laker" vessels that transport the region's grains and ore.
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Years in the making, the proposal is coming to a head as Great Lakes legislators, including Minnesota's Jim Oberstar, work furiously behind the scenes to temporarily exempt many of the inland "laker" vessels that transport the region's grains and ore.
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I like to troll/drift fish with live bait, trout, salmon, lakers. this year I have caught more salmon on nightcrawlers, even a 6 pound laker on a crawler!
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I like to troll/drift fish with live bait, trout, salmon, lakers. this year I have caught more salmon on nightcrawlers, even a 6 pound laker on a crawler!
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This nice laker just would not stop moving for the pic.
Field & Stream 2009
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Lake trout, trolling just outside of Rockport (Alpena MI) longlining with cowbells and green/yellow peanuts! what fun with the bro! even better was the fried laker for lunch!
Biggest Fish Caught? 2009
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Yes | No | Report from bigjake wrote 16 weeks 6 hours ago not real close to ya but Quebec, Canada has world class brook trout, lake trout, splake (brookie/laker hybrid) and artic char fishing.
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All Answers from bigjake wrote 16 weeks 6 hours ago not real close to ya but Quebec, Canada has world class brook trout, lake trout, splake (brookie/laker hybrid) and artic char fishing.
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One day my mate had a laker – a day off work.
Joe Kenyon · Working Underground · LRB 27 November 1997 Joe Kenyon 2020
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