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plural okers
(now chiefly dialectal) Interest on money; usury; increase. examples
third-person singular simple present okers, present participle okering, simple past and past participle okered
(transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To increase (in price); add to. examples
countable and uncountable, plural okers
(mineralogy) Obsolete form of ochre. examples
Alternative form of oka (“unit of measurement”) quotations examples
Comparatively speaking, the Greek peasantry are wealthy; — a circumstance which, in most cases, produces contentment in the matrimonial state. I say wealthy, because, even in the interior of the country, a peasant can always gain his drachma per day; out of which he will buy an oker of bread (two pounds and a half,) which will cost him twenty-four leptas; […]
1837, George Cochrane, Wanderings in Greece, volumes 1-2, page 296