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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

  • Rainy Lake stretches across Minnesota and Ontario, and this is where we have our fun, gang.

    CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2007 2007

  • 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.

    CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2007 2007

  • 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.

    CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2007 2007

  • International Falls, Rainy Lake is a four - season destination, and our winter economy is booming.

    CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2007 2007

  • 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.

    CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2007 2007

  • If it extended from anywhere it must have been from the north, or along the confines of that mystic region called Rainy Lake.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Trish Short Lewis 2005

  • 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.

    Archive 2005-10-01 ricklibrarian 2005

  • 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.

    Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country by Louise Erdrich ricklibrarian 2005

  • 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.

    The Maid of the Whispering Hills

  • And into it, with that travel-tired band of venturers from Rainy Lake, had passed a princess.

    The Maid of the Whispering Hills

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