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Definition of Larker
1. n. A catcher of larks.
Definition of Larker
1. Noun. A catcher of larks (the bird). ¹
2. Noun. One who indulges in a lark or frolic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Larker
1. one that larks [n -S] - See also: larks
Lexicographical Neighbors of Larker
Literary usage of Larker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1898)
"But the larker, the habitual larker, is an abomination in the hunting-field. ...
Never can I recollect to have seen an habitual larker a good man to hounds ..."
2. British Zoology by Thomas Pennant (1818)
"When the weather grows gloomy, the larker changes his engine, and makes use of
a trammel net twenty-seven ..."
3. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"When the weather grows gloomy, the larker changes his engine, and makes use of
a trammel-net, twenty- seven or twenty-eight feet long, and five broad; ..."
4. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the by Francis Walker, John Edward Gray (1856)
"Fore wings with three undulating oblique blackish lines, a little larker bctween
the third line and the exterior border. Hind wings i little paler than the ..."
5. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"When the weather grows gloomy, the larker changes his engine, and makes ufe of
a trammel net, twenty feven or twenty-eight feet long, and five broad ; which ..."
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