German

Noun

Acker m ‎(genitive Ackers, plural Äcker, diminutive Äckerchen n)

1. field (wide, open space used to grow crops)

Declension

Related terms

• ackern
• Ackerbau
• Ackerman (surname)

English

Noun

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 [...].

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Noun

acker ‎(plural ackers)

1. Obsolete form of acre.

References

• G. A. Cooke, The County of Devon

Anagrams

• Crake, crake, creak

German

Verb

acker

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