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Lower Lakes
[ loh-er ]
plural noun
- (sometimes lowercase) Chiefly Canadian. Lakes Erie and Ontario, the southernmost Great Lakes.
Lower Lakes
plural noun
- Lakes Erie and Ontario
Example Sentences
Loch Erne is divided into upper and lower lakes.
Keeping one's ideas to one's self the boat was examined and careful scrutiny ascertained that the "guards" could be removed and replaced without interference with the hull, so that this first obstacle to her being brought to the Lower Lakes could be overcome.
It was considered that she could not be returned to the Lower Lakes because it was said that having been brought up the canals from Montreal, the "guards" added at Buffalo, which made her width fifty feet at the main deck could not be removed without serious damage in order to reduce her to the then Welland canal width of only 26 feet.
One of these, Pere Lallement, reports that in 1642 an "Onguiaara" tribe of Indians were living between the two lower lakes on a river bearing the same name as the tribe.
Up to the time that the ice retreated past the Lower narrows, the waters of the upper and lower lakes were united, held up to a common level by the ice which blocked this pass.
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