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单词 laker
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lakern.1

Brit. /ˈleɪkə/, U.S. /ˈleɪkər/
Etymology: < lake n.3 + -er suffix1.
1. A visitor to the English lakes. [A pun: see quot. 1805.] Obsolete.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > tourist > English lakes
laker1798
1798 J. Plumptre (title) The Lakers; a comic opera in three acts.
1805 Bp. 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).
1806 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) III. 41 You would come as a mere laker and pay a guide for telling you what to admire.
1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) I. 42 A stepping-stile has been placed to accommodate Lakers with an easier access.
2. One of the ‘Lake poets’.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > school of poets or poetic movement > [noun] > poets of specific schools
bardist1588
laker1814
Lakist1822
Parnassian1872
Scottish Chauceriana1883
metaphysical1887
symbolist1888
imagist1912
Acmeist1913
unanimist1915
simultaneist1923
symboliste1925
ultraist1931
spatialist1934
beat poet1955
Black Mountaineer1965
1814 Edinb. Rev. 24 1 Imitations of Cowper, and even of Milton.., engrafted on the natural drawl of the Lakers.
1819 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) II. 73 Apropos to Mr. Jeffrey and Mr. Wordsworth, I want you to read one fair specimen of the great Laker.
1876 E. 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 North America.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) > salmo confinis
lake trout1661
laker1823
the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) > salmo ferox (lake-trout)
lake trout1661
laker1823
mackinaw trout1838
ferox1876
1823 J. 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.
1846 J. Wilson Let. in Hamilton Mem. (1859) vii. 234 Fresh-water ones [trout] found in the river, but more like lakers.
1876 Forest & 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.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels from specific country or region > [noun] > types of regional vessel > in North America
Moses boat1705
Moses1737
bungo1854
laker1887
1887 Cent. Mag. Aug. 484/2 A twenty-foot laker can slip through any lock without scratching her paint.
1945 Seafarers' Log 27 Apr. 6/3 She is a small laker but generally has more beefs than would the SS Queen Elizabeth.
1961 Guardian 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.
1970 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 23 Sept. 26/1 The 5,300-ton laker Orefax ran aground..off Battery Island in the St. Lawrence River.
1974 Globe & 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.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > who sails in specific waters
channeller?1574
coaster1574
shore-creeper1599
riverman1612
circumnavigator1770
canaller1796
laker1838
river runner1913
1838 J. 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.
1910 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 173/1 He was an experienced ‘Laker’, but the scene..had completely unmanned him.
1936 K. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

lakern.2

Brit. /ˈleɪkə/, U.S. /ˈleɪkər/
Etymology: < lake v.1 + -er suffix1.
One who ‘lakes’.
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1805 Bp. 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).
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby
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