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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 153 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACORN , the See also:

fruit of the See also:oak-See also:tree; a word also used, by See also:analogy with the shape, in nautical See also:language, for a piece of See also:wood keeping the See also:vane on the See also:mast-See also:head. The See also:etymology of the word (earlier akerne, and acharn) is well discussed in the New See also:English See also:Dictionary. It is derived from a word (Goth. akran) which meant " fruit," originally " of the unenclosed See also:land," and so of the most important See also:forest produce, the oak. See also:Chaucer speaks of " achornes of okes." By degrees, popular etymology connected the word both with " See also:corn " and " oak-See also:horn," and the spelling changed accordingly.

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