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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
aken .
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Examples
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So we bought horses and mules for our own use, which are very cheap there, insomuch that I bought a horse for myself for eleven _akens_, and sold him afterwards in Aleppo for 30 ducats.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784
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Alepo.] and wee bought horses and mules, for that they bee very good cheape there, I my selfe bought a horse there for 11. akens, and solde him after in Alepo for 30. duckets.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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