▪ I. laking, vbl. n.1 Now dial.
(ˈleɪkɪŋ)
[f. lake v.1 + -ing1.]
Playing, amusement. Also attrib.
| 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 594 When he es yhung and luffes laykyng. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxxv. 5188 Than he Sayd..God mot at yhoure laykyng be! a 1816 [see laker]. 1857 E. Waugh Lanc. Life 216 They were used to call this pastime..‘laking wi't' Boggart’; that is, playing with the Boggart. 1884 H. Seebohm Brit. Birds II. 436 These ‘laking’-places, as they are locally termed, are frequented by a great number of males, who fight for possession of the females. |
▪ II. laking, vbl. n.2
(ˈleɪkɪŋ)
[f. lake n.4 + -ing1.]
a. Visiting the English lakes. b. Writing poetry in the style of the Lake school.
| 1822 J. Wilson Lakes Note, Wks. 1856 VI. 105 We should suppose that Spring was a season by no means amiss for Laking. 1837 Foreign Q. Rev. XIX. 301 German romanticism and English laking are one. |