Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A catcher of larks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A catcher of larks.
- noun colloq. One who indulges in a lark or frolic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A catcher of
larks (the bird). - noun One who
indulges in alark orfrolic .
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Examples
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There a loud-voiced pond-larker spied him: and uttered such words as these.
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Pond-larker saw Loud-crier perishing, he struck in quickly and wounded Troglodyte in his soft neck with a rock like a mill-stone, so that darkness veiled his eyes.
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I again heard asked by a slang-looking man with red whiskers meeting under his chin; "looks like a larker -- I must get introduced to her," added the conceited brute.
Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville
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Now when Pond-larker saw Loud-crier perishing, he struck in quickly and wounded Troglodyte in his soft neck with a rock like a mill-stone, so that darkness veiled his eyes.
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There a loud-voiced pond-larker spied him: and uttered such words as these.
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Tranter, an 'many's the larker what's felt' er 'and on' is collar a-chuckin '' im out o 'the' Trusty Man 'neck an' crop for sayin 'somethin' what aint ezackly agreeable to 'er feelin's.
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889
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"Trust me, mate," answered the lad, a sharp young mud-larker.
The Two Shipmates William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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a regular _Mud-larker_, picking up halfpence by running into the water, offering my ragged arm to people getting out of the wherries, always saluting them with, "You haven't got never a half penny for poor Jack, your honour?" and sometimes I did get a halfpenny, sometimes a shove, according to the temper of those whom I addressed.
Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820
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a regular _Mud-larker_, picking up halfpence by running into the water, offering my ragged arm to people getting out of the wherries, always saluting them with, "You haven't got never a halfpenny for poor Jack, your honor?" and sometimes I did get a halfpenny, sometimes a shove, according to the temper of those whom I addressed.
Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820
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