Laker vs Clipper - What's the difference?
laker | clipper |
(nautical, North America) A ship used on the Great Lakes.
A wharfman who resides near a lake.
Anything that clips.
* 2010 , James Morrow, The Last Witchfinder
(chiefly, in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
Something that moves swiftly; especially:
# (nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
# (informal) An Alberta clipper.
(electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
As nouns the difference between laker and clipper
is that laker is a lakist; one of the (lake poets) while clipper is anything that clips.As a proper noun laker
is .laker
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) *. More at (l).Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From .Noun
(en noun)Hyponyms
* (watercraft) straight decker, stern-ender, whalebackclipper
English
Noun
(wikipedia clipper) (en noun)- Surtouts billowing in an unseasonably fierce wind, the ursine Chelmsford magistrate and his equally bulky constable herded their bound prisoners – three murderers, three thieves, a coin clipper , two convicted witches – across the Common