acker

See also: Acker and Äcker

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈa.kə/
  • Rhymes: -ækə(r)

Etymology 1

Origin unknown; perhaps a variant of eagre.

Noun

acker (plural ackers)

  1. (regional, now rare) 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

acker (plural ackers)

  1. Obsolete form of acre.

References

  • G. A. Cooke, The County of Devon

Anagrams

German

Verb

acker

  1. First-person singular present of ackern.
  2. Imperative singular of ackern.

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch akker, from Proto-Germanic *akraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros.

Noun

acker m

  1. field (for agriculture)
  2. acre

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

  • “acker”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “acker”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
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