Acker
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈakə/
- Rhymes: -ækə(r)
Origin 1
Origin unknown; perhaps a variant of eagre.
Full definition of acker
Noun
acker
(plural ackers)- (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 ....
Origin 2
Variant forms.