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chained_bear commented on the word acherner
"in astronomy, a star of the first m agnitude, in the southern extremity of the constellation Eridanus, known to mariners by the name of the Spring of the River Erida, but invisible in our latitude...."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 3
October 12, 2008