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Acre

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“God’s acre,” a cemetery or churchyard. The word “acre,” Old English, œcer, is akin to the Latin ager and German acker (a field).

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.