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ÆCER

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
ÆCER, æcyr, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§17; §54; §155; §219; §232; §255; §310; §339;
a field, land, what is sown, sown land; ager, seges
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  • For ðam is se æcer geháten Acheldemah

    propter hoc vocatus est ager ille Haceldama,

    • Mt. Bos. 27, 8
    • .
  • Hér ys seó bót, hú ðú meaht ðíne æceras betan

    here is the remedy, how thou mayest improve thy fields,

    • Lchdm. i. 398, 1
    • .
  • Of ðæm æcere

    from the field,

    • Bt. Met. Fox 12, 3
    • ;
    • Met. 12, 2
    • .
  • Æcera þúsend

    a thousand fields,

    • 14, 10; Met. 14, 5
    • .
a definite quantity of land which, in A. Sax. times, a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, an ACRE, that is 4840 square yards; jugeri spatium, jugerum, a jugo quod tantum fere spatii uno jugo boum arari posset: also ager - Ger. acker an acre
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  • Ǽlce dæg ic sceal erian fulne æcer oððe máre

    omni die debeo arare integrum jugerum [MS. agrum] aut plus,

    • Coll. Monast. Th. 19, 21
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  • Ðæt is se teóða æcer, eal swá seó sulh hit gegá

    that is the tenth acre, all as the plough goes over it,

    • L. C. E. 8; Th. i. 366, 6
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  • Æceras

    jugera,

    • Cot. 109
    • .
Etymology
[
O. Sax. akkar
:
O. Frs. ekker
:
O. Ger. ahhar
:
N. Ger. acker a field, an acre
:
Goth. akrs
:
O. Nrs. akr
:
Lat. ager
:
Grk. ἀγρός
Sansk. ajra a plain.
]
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v.  sulh-æcer acer æcyr ecer.
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  • ÆCER, n.