The proper name “Achird” seems to have been applied in recent times and has no clear meaning, one unsupported source suggesting “girdle.” Better really to know it by its Greek letter name of Eta Cas.
If any one hire a day laborer, he shall pay him from the New Year until the fifth month (April to August, when days are long and the work hard) six gerahs in money per day; from the sixth month to the end of the year he shall give him five gerahs per day.