lake-wake

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• Wake

  ·vt To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body. II. Wake ·vt To rouse from sleep; to <<Awak...

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• wake

  A country feast, commonly on the anniversary of the tutelar saint of the village, that is, the saint...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• wake

  the feast of the dedication of the parish church. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• wake

  The transient, generally smooth, track impressed on the surface-water by a ship's progress. Its bear...

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• Lake

  ·noun A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use. II. Lake ·vi To <<Play>>; to <<Sport>>. III. La...

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• lake

  1) to play ; from the Saxon LAIKAN. 2) to pour gently, to cast a little water on. Perhaps to leak. ...

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• lake

  A large inland expanse of water, with or without communication with the sea. A lake, strictly consid...

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• Wake-robin

  ·noun Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum). ...

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• Capria Lake

  CAPRIA LAKE[ASPENNDUS.] ...

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• Lake-dweller

  ·noun ·see Lake dwellers, under <<Lake>>. ...

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• lake-trout

  n. a Tasmanian fish, Galaxiasauratus, family Galaxidae. See Mountain-Trout. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• lake lawyer

  (Genus, amia. Linnæus.) The Western Mud-fish. It is found in Lakes Erie and Ontario, where it is kno...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• french lake

  A soubriquet for the Mediterranean. ...

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• lake-lawyer

  A voracious fish in the lakes of America, called also the mud-fish. ...

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• sea-lake

  Synonymous with lagoon (which see). ...

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• stream-lake

  One which communicates with, the sea by means of a river. ...

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• crossing a ship's wake

  When a ship sails over the transient track which another has just passed, i.e. passes close astern o...

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• veer a buoy in a ship's wake, to

  To slack out a rope to which a buoy has been attached, and let it go astern, for the purpose of brin...

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