Obs. A cultivator of the ground, a husbandman, or ploughman.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gloss., 5 Æcerman, agricola.
1389. R. Wimbledon, Serm., in Helmingh. MS. (also in Foxe, A. & M. (1562), I. 622). If þe laboreris were not, boþ prestis and kniȝtis mosten bicome acremen and heerdis.
c. 1400. Lay le Freine, 176. Acremen yede to the plough.
