Ockerer

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A usurer. Scotland, especially, obsolete

    "[…] under the pain of confiscation of all their moveable goods, and to be otherwise punished in their persons as common ockerers, according to law."

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"[…] under the pain of confiscation of all their moveable goods, and to be otherwise punished in their persons as common ockerers, according to law."

Etymology

From ocker (“usury”) + -er.

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