Aker

All the islanders are more or less in the habit of anointing themselves; the women preferring the 'aker' to 'papa', and the men using the oil of the cocoanut. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

All the islanders are more or less in the habit of anointing themselves; the women preferring the "aker" or "papa," and the men using the oil of the cocoa-nut. ❋ Unknown (1846)

However, Whit-aker's history stretches back 41 years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The San Francisco filmm aker, visual artist, sculptor and music-video pioneer 1933-2008 made only a couple dozen short, experimental films in his 74 years. ❋ Steve Dollar (2010)

That might explain the Horns of Consecration motif in Knossos, pictured below, which start to look a lot like twin peaks much like the undoubtedly related Egyptian aker symbolism also pictured below. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If we piece this all together we get the following rough but promising partial translation of this Lemnian phrase: "an [aker] of Venel's [tavarśiu] (that is) before (the) [śeruna murina]." ❋ Unknown (2009)

From there, *Kʰaputar 'The Summits'? would become the word for the entire Minoan region, perhaps in connection to the Horns of Consecration, a very sacred and prominent symbol undoubtedly related to the Egyptian aker symbol representing the sun both emerging from and setting into the two horizons. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the Lemnos Stele, an as-yet undeciphered phrase is inscribed: aker tavarśiu vanalasial śerunai murinail. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mai hole gardin incloodin teh bit teh howse iz awn iz wun twelf uv an aker…… ❋ Unknown (2009)

Karl B. DeB.aker/Associated Press Carolina Hurricanes 'Chad LaRose (59) shot the puck past New York Islanders goalie Peter Mannino (1) during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., ❋ Unknown (2009)

He is 51-year-old S.aker al - Absi, a Palestinian sentenced to death in Jordan for killing U.S. Diplomat Laurence Foley almost five years ago. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"Ani yachol Le-aker ota Le-reva shaaa, avl Atta tzarich lemaher Ani Hoshev sh-Araba-atenu hochel Le-hishtalet alia." ❋ Unknown (2006)

But indeede, most commonly it is the height of their ambition to aspire to the imployment of stopping mustard-pots, or wrapping up pepper, pouder, staves-aker, &c. which done, they expire. ❋ John Earle (N/A)

I must néeds confesse, if I shall speake simply of the thing, that is, how many foulds it doubleth and increaseth, surely it is both great and wonderfull: and whereas ingenerall it is reputed that an aker of set ❋ Gervase Markham (N/A)

But he stuck manfully to a number that were quite as revolutionary—for example, aker for acre, cag for keg, grotesk for grotesque, hainous for heinous, porpess for porpoise and tung for tongue—and they did not begin to disappear until the edition of 1854, issued by other hands and eleven years after his death. ❋ Henry Louis (1921)

He sought to change acre to aker, but left lucre unchanged. ❋ Henry Louis (1921)