different between racker vs acker

English

Etymology

rack +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æk?(r)

Noun

racker (plural rackers)

1. One who racks.
2. A horse that has a racking gait.

Anagrams

• craker, rerack

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?a.k?/
• Rhymes: -æk?(r)

Etymology 1

Origin unknown; perhaps a variant of eagre.

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

See also

• ackers (“money”)

Anagrams

• Crake, Kacer, crake, creak

German

Verb

acker

1. inflection of ackern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch akker, from Proto-Germanic *akraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?é?ros.

Noun

acker m

1. field (for agriculture)
2. acre

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: akker
• Limburgish: akker

Further reading

• “acker”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “acker”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German ackar.

Noun

acker m

1. field, acre

Related terms

• ackerknëht
• ackerliute
• ackerman
• zackere, zacker

Descendants

• Cimbrian: akhar
• German: Acker
• Luxembourgish: Aker