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Dictionary  ac•tonPronunciation: (ak'tun), [key] —n. Armor. a quilted garment worn under mail in the 13th and 14th centuries; gambeson. Also,ackton,aketon. Ac•tonPronunciation: (ak'tun), [key] —n. 1. Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron), 1834–1902, English historian. 2. a former municipal borough in SE England, now part of the London borough of Ealing: center of Puritanism at the time of Cromwell. 3. a city in NE Massachusetts. 17,544. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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