acker

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

Origin unknown; perhaps a variant of eagre.

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 [...].

Variant forms.

acker (plural ackers)

1. Obsolete form of acre.

• G. A. Cooke, The County of Devon

• ackers (“money”)

• Crake, crake, creak

acker

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

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
• “acker”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old High German ackar.

acker m

1. field, acre

• ackerknëht
• ackerliute
• ackerman
• zackere, zacker

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