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Acker

//ˈækə// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An English topographical surname from Old English from Old English æcer (“field”).
  2. 2
    A German topographical surname from German from Old High German ackar (“field”).
  3. 3
    nickname from the Somerset slang for "friend" or "mate", e.g. Acker Bilk
Noun
  1. 1
    A visible current in a lake or river; a ripple on the surface of water. archaic, dialectal

    "The wide lovely lake lay in dreamy serenity, fretted with green undulations, ruffed with blue, patched with glades of lucid smoothness between the ackers [...]."

  2. 2
    Obsolete form of acre. alt-of, obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

Unknown; perhaps a variant of eagre.

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

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