acker

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

Unknown; perhaps a variant of eagre.

acker (plural ackers)

1. (dialectal, now rare) A visible current in a lake or river; a ripple on the surface of water.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 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 [...].

Variant forms.

acker (plural ackers)

1. Obsolete form of acre.

• G. A. Cooke, The County of Devon

• ackers (“money”)

• Crake, Kacer, crake, creak

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acker

1. inflection of ackern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

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

acker m

1. field (for agriculture)
2. acre

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: akker
• Limburgish: akker

• “acker”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “acker”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

From Old High German ackar.

acker m

1. field, acre

• ackerknëht
• ackerliute
• ackerman
• zackere, zacker

• Cimbrian: akhar
• German: Acker
• Luxembourgish: Aker

From Middle English actour, from Latin āctōr; equivalent to ack +‎ -er.

acker (plural ackers)

1. actor

• “acker, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

acker (plural ackers)

1. Alternative form of acre

• “acker, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

acker (plural ackers)

1. Shetland form of awkir (“stalk”)

• “acker, n.²” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.