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Acton

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Ac´ton
n.1.A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail.


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Old Acton has some claim on half Cunningham's estate, and the lawyers have been at it with both hands.
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
Respecting the author's identity, I would have it to he distinctly understood that Acton Bell is neither Currer nor Ellis Bell, and therefore let not his faults be attributed to them.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context
D--n me, I'd rather be run by my own dogs, as one Acton was, that the story-book says was turned into a hare, and his own dogs killed un and eat un.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
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