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ockerer en · NOUN

Etymology

From ocker (“usury”) + -er.

Meanings

1. (Scotland, especially, obsolete) A usurer.
   • […] under the pain of confiscation of all their moveable goods, and to be otherwise punished in their persons as common ockerers, according to law. 1769, Statute Law of Scotland Abridged. With Historical Notes, Scotland, page 392:
   • The first Species thereof is, Whoever receives more Annualrent^([sic]), than Ten for each Hundred, shall be punished as Ockerers, or Usurers, conform to the Laws of the Realm, already made, […] 1699, George Mackenzie, The Laws and Customs of Scotland, in Matters Criminal: Wherein is to be Seen how the Civil Law, and the Laws and Customs of Other Nations Doth Agree With, and Supply Ours, page 119:

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