Now dial. [f. LAKE v.1 + -ING1.] Playing, amusement. Also attrib.
c. 1340. Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 594. When he es yhung and luffes laykyng.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., VIII. xxxv. 5188. Than he Sayd … God mot at yhoure laykyng be!
a. 1816. [see LAKER].
1857. E. Waugh, Lanc. Life, 216. They were used to call this pastime … ‘laking wi’t’ Boggart’; that is, playing with the Boggart.
1884. H. Seebohm, Brit. Birds, II. 436. These ‘laking’-places, as they are locally termed, are frequented by a great number of males, who fight for possession of the females.
