Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun One of the
Great Lakes of North America. Hydrologically, a bay ofLake Michigan–Huron .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the 2nd largest of the Great Lakes
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Lake Huron.
Examples
-
Its waters flow through the Saint Mary's River by a rapid descent into Lake Huron, which is 240 miles long.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
-
'' 'Lake Huron' '' is one of the five [[Great Lake]] s found in [[North America]].
-
'' 'Lake Huron' '' is one of the five [[Great Lake]] s found in [[North America]].
-
There were about 250 men in the raiding party, Ottawa and Ojibway Chippewa fighters from around Michilimackinac, at the northwest end of Lake Huron, and a few Canadian militia.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
-
He traveled by the usual route, up the Ottawa River and through the intricate system of waterways in northern Ontario which leads to Georgian Bay and to Lake Huron.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
-
The increased surveillance forced smugglers to cross Lake Huron instead of the river.
-
In Sanilac County, Mich., Sheriff Garry Biniecki said his county's coastline on Lake Huron was a quiet place until 2008, when the government began installing sensors and cameras along the St. Clair River, to the south.
-
The increased surveillance forced smugglers to cross Lake Huron instead of the river.
-
In brief, as the Boston Globe first reported in 2007, in 1983, Mitt Romney, then 36 years old, drove his station wagon packed with five sons and his wife on a 12-hour trip from Boston to Ontario, where his parents had a cottage on Lake Huron.
Lanny Davis: Romney's "Dog on Car Roof Story" Won't Go Away Lanny Davis 2012
-
His hair was blond sans dishwater and his eyes were a pale aqua green, “like the water of Lake Huron when it laps the shores of Mackinac Island,” his mother used to say—before she stopped noticing.
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.