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acred

[ ey-kerd ]

adjective

  1. owning many acres of land; landed.


acred

/ ˈɪə /

adjective

  1. usually in combination having acres of land

    a well-acred nobleman

    a many-acred farm

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of acred1

First recorded in 1835–45; acre + -ed 3
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“I know it was hard. Life’s not always wonderful. They always stayed together,” daughter Barbara Acred said.

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Greenaway was violent, and rather disposed to give an "exemplary" sentence; Wiseman was contemptuously indifferent, as became a big acred man and the husband of a woman with a handle to her name; and Parson Codling was unctuously severe.

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Thieves! ye acred loon!" exclaimed the Faa king, starting to his feet, and drawing himself up to his full height—"wha does the worm that burrows in the lands o' Clennel ca' thieves?

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It was a costly day’s journey to ride through the domain of a lord abbot or an acred baron. 

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I remember how the Spring,   Liberal-lapped, bewildered its Acred orchards, murmuring,   Kissed to blossom; budded bits Where the wood-thrush came to sing.

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