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laik

/leɪk/

laik is the alternative form of lake.

Meaning of lake

Verb (1)

lake (third-person singular simple present lakes, present participle laking, simple past and past participle laked)

  1. (obsolete) To present an offering.
  2. (Northern, UK, dialectal) To leap, jump, exert oneself; to play.
    • The agent was of course the Boggart, and it soon became their sport (which they called laking with Boggart) to put the shoe-horn into the hole and have it shot back at them.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 307
  3. To subject biological cells to repeated cycles of freezing and thawing until lysis.

Verb (2)

lake (third-person singular simple present lakes, present participle laking, simple past and past participle laked)

  1. To make lake-red.

See all 30 meanings of lake

Forms of laik

third-person singular presentlaiks
present participlelaiking
past participlelaiked
pastlaiked

Words formed from laik

Words that rhyme with laik

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Questions about laik

What is laik the alternative form of?
Laik is the alternative form of lake.
How do you pronounce laik?
Laik is pronounced /leɪk/.

Words near laik in the dictionary

  1. laidst
  2. Laifeng
  3. Laihia
  4. laihunite
  5. laihunites
  6. laik
  7. laika
  8. Laikangbam
  9. laikas
  10. laiked
  11. laiker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: laik (page history and authors); lake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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