Also whit(t)aker, witacre.
† 1. Law. An arbitrary name for a particular parcel of ground, distinguished from another called BLACK ACRE, q.v. Obs.
1642. trans. Perkins’ Prof. Bk., viii. § 561. If a man seised in fee of white acre and black acre devisable, and deviseth white acre unto I. S. [etc.].
1698. [see BLACK ACRE].
2. A local name for white quartz.
1796. Marshall, Rural Econ. W. Eng., I. 16. A species of crystal, or quartz—provincially ‘whittaker’; which, in colour, is mostly white, sometimes tinged with red.
1839. De la Beche, Rep. Geol. Cornw., etc. xv. 473, note. Quartz is commonly known … as whiteacre in eastern Cornwall and part of Devon.
