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▪ I. laker1|ˈleɪkə(r)|
[f. lake n.3 + -er1.]
†1. A visitor to the English lakes. [A pun: see quot. 1805.] Obs.
1798[J. Plumptre] (title) The Lakers; a Comic Opera in Three Acts. 1805Bp. Watson in R. Watson Life (1818) II. 269 Lakers (such is the denomination by which we distinguish those who come to see our country, intimating thereby not only that they are persons of taste who wish to view our lakes, but idle persons who love laking: the old Saxon word to lake, or play, being of common use among schoolboys in these parts). 1806Southey in C. C. Southey Life III. 41 You would come as a mere laker and pay a guide for telling you what to admire. 1829― Sir T. More (1831) I. 42 A stepping-stile has been placed to accommodate Lakers with an easier access.
2. One of the ‘Lake poets’.
1814Edin. Rev. XXIV. 1 Imitations of Cowper, and even of Milton.., engrafted on the natural drawl of the Lakers. 1819Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) II. 73 Apropos to Mr. Jeffrey and Mr. Wordsworth, I want you to read one fair specimen of the great Laker. 1876E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 381 The Lakers all..first despised, and then patronised ‘Walter Scott’.
3. (U.S. local.) A fish living in or taken from a lake, spec. the lake-trout of N. America.
1823J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. xxiv. 261, I see a laker there, that has run out of the school. It's seldom one finds such a creater in the shallow waters. 1846J. Wilson Let. in Hamilton Mem. vii. (1859) 234 Fresh-water ones [trout] found in the river, but more like lakers. 1876Forest & Stream 13 July 368/2 He pulls like a laker, and you'll think you've got a whale.
4. A boat constructed for sailing on the great lakes of America.
1887Century Mag. Aug. 484/2 A twenty-foot laker can slip through any lock without scratching her paint. 1945Seafarers' Log 27 Apr. 6/3 She is a small laker but generally has more beefs than would the SS Queen Elizabeth. 1961Guardian 15 June 1/2 Until the Seaway opened in April, 1959, the ‘freshwater’ trade was carried in specially-designed lakers and smaller canallers... New 20,000-ton lakers..are coming into service. 1970Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 23 Sept. 26/1 The 5,300-ton laker Orefax ran aground..off Battery Island in the St. Lawrence River. 1974Globe & Mail (Toronto) 11 Sept. 8/9 The Canadian pilots will continue to serve ocean vessels downbound through the canal and take U.S. lakers west⁓bound.
5. One accustomed to sailing on a lake.
1838J. F. Cooper Home as Found II. 75 After fishing a few hours, the old laker [sc. Captain Truck] pulled the skiff up to the Point. 1910Blackw. Mag. Aug. 173/1 He was an experienced ‘Laker’, but the scene..had completely unmanned him. 1936K. Mackenzie Living Rough 274 When the deep-water sailor goes on the lakes, he has a tendency to..refer to the lakers as farmers, niggerhead sailors, and other salt-water jokes.
▪ II. ˈlaker2
[f. lake v.1 + -er1.]
One who ‘lakes’.
1805[see laker1 1]. 1876in Whitby Gloss., s.v. Lake. |
