ockerer
Scots legal Scots from 'ocker' (usury), ultimately from Old Norse 'okr' (increase, profit).
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Scots legal Scots from 'ocker' (usury), ultimately from Old Norse 'okr' (increase, profit). An ockerer charged ruinous interest on loans at a time when usury was both illegal and morally condemned; the term carried strong contempt in Scottish courts.
The court branded him an ockerer and ordered the excess interest repaid to every debtor he had fleeced.
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(obsolete, Scotland, especially, law) A usurer.
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