Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Roman antiquity, an earthwork or any artificial mound or rampart, as, in Rome, the agger of Servius Tullius.
- n. A Roman road or military way, so called because these roads were raised in the middle to turn water to the sides.
Wiktionary
- n. A high tide in which the water rises to a given level, recedes, and then rises again.
- n. A low tide in which the water recedes to a given level, rises, and then recedes again.
- n. In ancient Roman construction, an earthwork; a mound; a raised work.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete An earthwork; a mound; a raised work.
Etymologies
- From Middle English agger ("heap"), "pile", from Latin agger ("rubble"), "mound", "rampart", from ad- + gerere, to carry, to bring (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Its medial surface forms part of the lateral wall of the nasal cavity; at its upper part is a rough, uneven area, which articulates with the ethmoid, closing in the anterior ethmoidal cells; below this is an oblique ridge, the ethmoidal crest, the posterior end of which articulates with the middle nasal concha, while the anterior part is termed the agger nasi; the crest forms the upper limit of the atrium of the middle meatus.”
“In that year, Marshal Wade employed his army to construct a road by way of Harlaw and Cholterford, following for thirty miles the line of the old Roman Wall, the materials of which he used to construct his "agger" and culverts.”
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“That the Temple was of a _religious_, and not of a warlike nature, is proved by its ditch being withinside the agger of earth, contrary to the mode adopted in works of defence.”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
“Three ramparts surround the fort, which covers a large space of ground, and it is 'divided into two parts by a double agger ....”
“In some places the _agger_ is above three foot raised from the surface.”
“Why, that city was besieged by agger and vineae, and when the siege-works were burnt, new ones were constructed; for fifteen days fighting went on there round the walls above ground and below, and even when the soldiers had surmounted the walls, there was a long and doubtful struggle from early dawn till nightfall; more than 3000 of the enemy were slain.”
“Accordingly he commenced the siege of the city in regular form; his lines were extended equally in two directions down to the sea; on both sides he carried the agger and the vineae up to the walls and the battering-rams with their shelters were placed in position.”
“So he constructed an agger and brought up the vineae and the turrets close to the walls, but a fortunate circumstance rendered them unnecessary.”
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