Ockerer
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ockerer is a noun meaning (obsolete, Scotland, especially law) A usurer.
Meaning
(obsolete, Scotland, especially law) A usurer.
Example Sentences
[…] under the pain of confiscation of all their moveable goods, and to be otherwise punished in their persons as common ockerers, according to law.
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, […]
Word Forms
- ockerers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ocker, usuress, gaveller, owler, roister, bangster.
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