laking

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.

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