单词 | laker |
释义 | lakern.1ΘΚΠ 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’. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 One who ‘lakes’. ΚΠ 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 This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11798n.21805 |
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