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A form of 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.

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Meanings

nounaker (plural akers)

plural akers

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of acre

    … crope of an aker might have been worth=3 p aker ...

    1858, Jonathan Brown Bright, The Brights of Suffolk, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 127
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    That all rates that shall arise upon the Towne shall be layed upon Lands accordinge to every ones p'portion aker for aker of howse lotts and aker for aker of meddowe both alike on this side and both alike on the other side …

    1859, New England Historic Genealogical Society, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Digitized edition, S.G. Drake, published 2009, page 295

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

rakeKareKERAreakKearAkre
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APA

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MLA

“aker.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aker. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “aker,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aker.

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