%laker%

n. One that is connected with a lake or lakes, as in habitation, toil, etc.: (a) One of the poets of the Lake school. See Lake poets, under Lake, n. (b) (Zool.) A fish living in, or taken from, a lake, esp. the namaycush. (c) A lake steamer or canal boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bridge tender . . . thought the Cowies “a little mite” longer than that laker. The Century. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]