| 释义 |
▪ I. laking, vbl. n.1 Now dial.|ˈleɪkɪŋ|
[f. lake v.1 + -ing1.]
Playing, amusement. Also attrib.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 594 When he es yhung and luffes laykyng. c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxxv. 5188 Than he Sayd..God mot at yhoure laykyng be! a1816[see laker]. 1857E. Waugh Lanc. Life 216 They were used to call this pastime..‘laking wi't' Boggart’; that is, playing with the Boggart. 1884H. Seebohm Brit. Birds II. 436 These ‘laking’-places, as they are locally termed, are frequented by a great number of males, who fight for possession of the females.
▪ II. laking, vbl. n.2|ˈleɪkɪŋ|
[f. lake n.4 + -ing1.]
a. Visiting the English lakes.
b. Writing poetry in the style of the Lake school.
1822J. Wilson Lakes Note, Wks. 1856 VI. 105 We should suppose that Spring was a season by no means amiss for Laking. 1837Foreign Q. Rev. XIX. 301 German romanticism and English laking are one. |