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  • noun Plural form of laker.; a ship used on a lake.

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Examples

  • By contrast, ships that stay in the Great Lakes are known as "lakers"; really big ones can be called "super lakers."

    Week in Words Erin McKean 2011

  • There were no lamprey scars on the fish, oddly enough, as most Champlain lakers and salmon I get show lamprey hits.

    Trick-Or-Treat Trolling John Merwin 2008

  • Report Abuse the rockets will beat the lakers aka nbas renegade

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2010

  • Report Abuse they're called the lakers because the team used to be the

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2009

  • Lastly, if piscatorially inclined, here is a boathouse with every kind of boat from the steam-yacht down to the birch canoe, and there is the lake, full of "lakers," sturgeon, whitefish, and speckled trout, some of the latter weighing from thirty to forty pounds apiece, -- a condition of things alike satisfactory and tempting to every owner of a rod and line.

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 Various

  • On Duluth, MN Shipping Canal on Lake Superior, reach out & touch 800 'International ships & 1000'"lakers" ore boats

    aimClear Search Marketing Blog 2009

  • For almost a century the area was home to a massive shipyard that built and launched the giant "lakers" that plied the Great Lakes.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed MARY GOODERHAM 2009

  • I like to troll/drift fish with live bait, trout, salmon, lakers. this year I have caught more salmon on nightcrawlers, even a 6 pound laker on a crawler!

    favorite fishing bait all time. 2009

  • I like to troll/drift fish with live bait, trout, salmon, lakers. this year I have caught more salmon on nightcrawlers, even a 6 pound laker on a crawler!

    favorite fishing bait all time. 2009

  • I've recently seen where this very thing would have been priceless, when you're vertical jigging some lakers up and can't seem to hold still to get on fish, this would save the day.

    Trolling Motor Runs By GPS 2009

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