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Definition of 'acker'

English

Etymology 1

Origin unknown; perhaps a variant of (eagre).

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A visible current in a lake or river; a ripple on the surface of water.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 436:
  • The wide lovely lake lay in dreamy serenity, fretted with green undulations, ruffed with blue, patched with glades of lucid smoothness between the ackers [...].

    Etymology 2

    Variant forms.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • References

    * G. A. Cooke, The County of Devon

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