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mercer

/ˈmɝsɚ/

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What does mercer mean?

noun

  1. A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.

proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. A village on the Waikato River, Waikato region, New Zealand.
More meanings (11)

proper noun

  1. A township in Mercer County, Illinois.
  2. A township in Adams County, Iowa.
  3. A town in Somerset County, Maine, named after Hugh Mercer.
  4. A minor city in Mercer County, Missouri.
  5. An unincorporated community in Edgecombe County, North Carolina.
  6. A minor city in McLean County, North Dakota.
  7. An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Ohio, named after Hugh Mercer; formerly, Milan.
  8. A township in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
  9. A borough, the county seat of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Named after Hugh Mercer.
  10. An unincorporated community in Madison County, Tennessee.
  11. A town and census-designated place therein, in Iron County, Wisconsin.
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IPA pronunciation

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Both of them died at my grandfather Campbell's in Mercer county, Kentucky, before she married my father.
Carry Amelia NationThe Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. NationProject Gutenberg ebook #1485
This second cousin was a Middlemarch mercer of polite manners and superfluous aspirates.
George EliotMiddlemarchProject Gutenberg ebook #145
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Mr. H. C. Mercer, discussing the question of the presence of Indian corn in Italy and Europe in early times, remarks (Amer.
Alexander Francis ChamberlainThe Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-DayProject Gutenberg ebook #7966
Dr. Mercer very properly remarks that, in the second or chondromatous variety of polypus of the meatus, the treatment must depend upon the concomitant circumstances.
William YouattThe DogProject Gutenberg ebook #9478
Then is there here one Master Caper, at the suit of Master Three-pile the mercer, for some four suits of peach-coloured satin, which now peaches him a beggar.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100