larkern.1
/ˈlɑːkə/ One whose occupation it is to catch larks.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowler > [noun] > using snare or net > trapper of specific birds
lark-catcher1618
larker1634
sparrower1830
mutton-birder1881
birder1918
1634 A. Warwick Spare-minutes (1637) 68 When I see the Larker's day net spread out in a faire morning.
1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. ii. 235 When the weather grows gloomy, the larker changes his engine.
1770 G. White Let. 22 Feb. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 78 The larkers, in dragging their nets by night, frequently catch them [sc. fieldfares] in the wheat-stubbles.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
larkern.2
/ˈlɑːkə/ colloquial.
One given to ‘larking’ or sporting.
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society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun] > frolicker
wantonc1450
friskera1549
a merry (or mad) grig1566
friskin1596
uptails1602
gamester1616
romp1678
romper?1780
frolicker1801
skylarker1818
larker1826
rollicker1837
larrikin1868
rompster1893
jive-ass1964
1826 Sporting Mag. 18 285 He has been a bit of a larker in his time.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 3 July 1/3 He was conveyed by the ‘larkers’, who were medical students, to the statue of William III.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
larkern.3
/ˈlɑːkə/ (See quot. 1888.)
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1888 Argosy 19 278 Seine fishing is carried on by companies, each company owning 3 boats—the ‘seine boat’..the ‘vollier’..and another small boat called a larker.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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