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· Old English
æcer
2 English words descend from Old English
æcer
, most common first.
acre
An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.
Ackerley
A surname from Old English.