† acreman Obs.
A cultivator of the ground, a husbandman, or ploughman.
| c 1000 ælfric Gloss. 5 æcerman, agricola. 1389 R. Wimbledon Serm. in Helmingh. MS., If þe laboreris were not, boþ prestis and kniȝtis mosten bicome acremen and heerdis. [Also in Foxe A. & M. (1562) I. 622.] c 1400 Lay le Freine 176 Acre⁓men yede to the plough. |