Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A lake of northern Minnesota and southwest Ontario, Canada, drained by the Rainy River, which flows about 130 km (80 mi) generally westward along the US-Canadian border to Lake of the Woods.
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Examples
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Rainy Lake stretches across Minnesota and Ontario, and this is where we have our fun, gang.
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We have ice houses right behind me on Rainy Lake, dotting the lake across Minnesota and Ontario, and lots of folks out catching fish and having fun.
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We have ice houses right behind me on Rainy Lake, dotting the lake across Minnesota and Ontario, and lots of folks out catching fish and having fun.
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International Falls, Rainy Lake is a four - season destination, and our winter economy is booming.
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This is really good, because we need these cold temperatures to create safe ice conditions, of which we have, two, three feet of ice on Rainy Lake.
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If it extended from anywhere it must have been from the north, or along the confines of that mystic region called Rainy Lake.
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The author Louise Erdrich went on a spirit quest through the land of the Ojibwe, boating through Minnesota and Ontario, visiting islands in Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake.
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The author Louise Erdrich went on a spirit quest through the land of the Ojibwe, boating through Minnesota and Ontario, visiting islands in Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake.
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At Rainy Lake they had been held by thieving Indians and a great part of their provisions taken from them, leaving them to make their way in comparative poverty to the next post of De Seviere.
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And into it, with that travel-tired band of venturers from Rainy Lake, had passed a princess.
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