acton: Meaning and Definition of
ac•ton
Pronunciation: (ak'tun), [key]
— n. Armor.
- a quilted garment worn under mail in the 13th and 14th centuries; gambeson.
Ac•ton
Pronunciation: (ak'tun), [key]
— n.
- (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron), 1834–1902, English historian.
- a former municipal borough in SE England, now part of the London borough of Ealing: center of Puritanism at the time of Cromwell.
- a city in NE Massachusetts. 17,544.
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