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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A lake of northeast Saskatchewan and northwest Manitoba, Canada. It is drained by the Reindeer River, which flows southward to the Churchill River.

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Examples

  • Winnipeg, thence gaining Deer River and that Reindeer Lake which sends them forth into their unknown region beyond the Oujuragatchousibi.

    The Maid of the Whispering Hills

  • Reindeer Lake was crossed by moonlight, and a late camp was made a mile to the westward of the portage.

    The Gun-Brand 1921

  • Then there's the Liard River packet and the Reindeer Lake packet.

    The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905

  • The next morning Challoner's outfit of three teams and four men left north and west for the Reindeer Lake country on the journey to his new post at the mouth of the Cochrane.

    Nomads of the North James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • A tree thus shriven and trimmed is the Cree cenotaph to one held in almost spiritual reverence, and the tree far up on Reindeer Lake is one of the half dozen or more "lob-sticks" dedicated to Meleese.

    Back to God's Country and Other Stories James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • From DuBrochet, on Reindeer Lake, authentic word first came to Lac

    The Honor of the Big Snows James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • Le Pas as the last outpost of civilization and strike northward through the long Pelican Lake waterways to Reindeer Lake.

    Back to God's Country and Other Stories James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • It was the finest game country between Reindeer Lake and the Barren Lands.

    Baree, Son of Kazan James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • Far up on Reindeer Lake, close to the shore, there is a towering

    Back to God's Country and Other Stories James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • He was a magnificent canoeman, no man in Porcupine City could equal him for endurance, and for his bow paddle he had the best Indian in the whole Reindeer Lake country.

    Back to God's Country and Other Stories James Oliver Curwood 1903

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