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Lake v.1. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1903, rev. 2024. Lake v.1 Now chiefly dial. Forms: 1 lácan, 4 leyke, laiky, 4–6 laike, layke, 6, 9 laak, 8–9 laik, 4– lake. [A Com. Teut. reduplicative str. vb., OE. lácan, pa. t. léolc, léc = ON. leika, pa. t. lék (Sw. leka, Da. lege), Goth. laikan, pa. t. lailaik, MHG. leichen, pa. t. leichte, pa. pple. geleichen. The word seems in ME. to have been re-adopted in the Scandinavian form. Its currency is almost entirely northern, no forms with o being known. The inflexion has been weak since the 13th c.]

1   † 1.  intr. To exert oneself, move quickly, leap, spring; hence, to fight. Obs.

2 Beowulf (Z.), 2848. Ða ne dorston ær dareðum lacan on hyra man-dryhtnes miclan þearfe.

3 a. 1000.  Juliana, 674. Heliseus … leolc ofer laȝuflod longe hwile on swonrade.

4 c. 1205.  Lay., 21270. Arður him læc to swa hit a liun weoren. Ibid., 28522. Hit læc toward hirede folc vnimete.

5 c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 9997. Thus þai laiket o þe laund the long day ouer.

6   † b.  trans. To move quickly.

7 c. 1205.  Lay., 29662. Up he læc þene staf Þat water þer after leop.

8   2.  intr. To play, sport; occas. in amorous or obscene sense; dial. to take a holiday from work; to be out of work. Also with about, away.

9 c. 1300.  Havelok, 950. The children … with him leykeden here fille.

10 13[?].  E. E. Allit. P., B. 872. Laykez wyth hem as yow lyst & letez my gestes one.

11 1393.  Langl., P. Pl., C. I. 187. And yf hym luste for to layke þanne loke we mowe.

12 c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 12734. This Clunestra … For lacke of hir lord laiked besyde.

13 c. 1440.  York Myst., xxvi. 238. How þis losell laykis with his lorde.

14 1570.  Levins, Manip., 198/15.

15 1599.  T. Cutwode, Caltha Poet., Pref. (1815), A v. Let the lasses giue over laaking in the greene.

16 1674.  Ray, N. C. Words, 28. To Lake: to Play, a word common to all the North Country.

17 1803.  R. Anderson, Cumberld. Ball., 62. The peat-stack we us’d to lake roun ’ll be brunt ere this!

18 a. 1804.  J. Mather, Songs (1862), 91. (Sheffield Gloss.). Why don’t these play-acting foak lake away?

19 1818.  Scott, Hrt. Midl., xxxiii. Any tidy lass … that … would not go laiking about to wakes and fairs.

20 1859.  Mrs. Gaskell, Round the Sofa, II. 101. The men [in Westmoreland] occasionally going off laking, i.e. playing, i.e. drinking for days together.

21 1892.  Spectator, 16 April, 529/1. The Yorkshire word to signify playing, as generally understood, is ‘laking.’

22   † b.  quasi-trans. To sport with, mock. Obs.

23 13[?].  Seuyn Sag. (W.), 1212. A! hou wimmen conne hit make Whan thai wil ani man lake!

24   † 3.  refl. To amuse oneself, play. Obs.

25 c. 1350.  Will. Palerne, 31. [He] layked him long while to lesten þat merþe.

26 c. 1380.  Sir Ferumb., 3356. Þai hadden … burdes briȝte & bolde … to layky hem wan þay wolde.

27 a. 1400–50.  Alexander, 1770. Se quat I send to þe, son þi-selfe with to laike.

28 c. 1425.  Wyntoun, Cron., II. xiv. 1271. As this Queyne apon a day Hyr laykand in a medow lay.

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