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Acker

Acker

See also: acker and Äcker

German

Noun

Acker m (genitive Ackers, plural Äcker, diminutive Äckerchen n)

  1. field (wide, open space used to grow crops)

Declension

Related terms

acker

acker

See also: Acker and Äcker

English

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

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German

Verb

acker

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