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A visible current in a lake or river; a ripple on the surface of water.
Noun archaic, dialectal
- A visible current in a lake or river; a ripple on the surface of water.
- The wide lovely lake lay in dreamy serenity, fretted with green undulations, ruffed with blue, patched with glades of lucid smoothness between the ackers [...]. - 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published...
Origin
Unknown; perhaps a variant of eagre.
Forms
Noun alt of, obsolete
- Obsolete form of acre.
Origin
Variant forms.