Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Laker

Laker , noun

(Zoology) One that is connected with a lake or lakes, as in habitation, toil, etc.:
(a)
(Zoology) One of the poets of the Lake school. See Lake poets, under Lake, n.
(b)
(Zoology) A fish living in, or taken from, a lake, esp. the namaycush.
(c)
(Zoology) A lake steamer or canal boat.
The bridge tender... thought the Cowies “a little mite” longer than that laker. — The Century