Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See bore3.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See eager.
Wiktionary
- adj. Obsolete form of eager.
- n. a tidal bore
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the
bore . See bore.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
Etymologies
- From Old English eágor ("water, sea") (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Friday The 13th was the nail in the coffin - the movie was so eagre to both reinvent itself and cater to fans at the same time that it completely forgot to remind us why Jason is such a horror badass.”
Interview: Samuel Bayer, Director of A Nightmare on Elm Street | /Film
“Agar (the Humber eagre), and this year each fond father dreads lest his daughter will be chosen for the victim.”
“Then we are caught into the primal beauty of earth, and life flows in upon us like an eagre.”
“As we met the roaring eagre we felt the engine leap, as Schwartz's hesitation left him and he opened the throttle.”
“_ 'But like an _eagre_ rode in triumph o'er the tide.”
“A large wave like an eagre, diverging from its bow, was extending to either bank, swamping the tules and threatening to submerge the lower levees.”
“He's eagre, and she's mustard; and they'll none mix ill -- but they'll set folks 'throats a-fire as meddles wi' 'em.”
“Eagre is the old English word for vinegar, which is just "wine-eagre.”
“[Footnote 90: 'An eagre:' a tide swelling above another tide -- observed on the River Trent.] [Footnote 91: 'Short and Hobbes:' two physicians who attended on the king.] [Footnote 92: 'King:' King David.] [Footnote 93: 'The prophet:' Elijah.] *****”
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
“But like an eagre [90] rode in triumph o'er the tide.”
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eagre’.
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Times and Tides
Words pertaining to the oceans' tides; words describing seasons or portions of time that contain the searchable string *tide.
*tide, no-tide, tidewater, amphidromic, tide, tidal, cotidal, noontide, Yuletide, eventide, Whitsuntide, Passiontide and 99 more...
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from phrontistery.info
eagre, earing, earwig, easement, eau-de-nil, ebberman, ebeneous, ?boulement, ebriection, ?brillade, ebrious, ebullioscope and 616 more...
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Waves and Waveforms
wave, brainwave, soliton, traveling wave, tidal wave, transverse wave, capillary wave, cats' paws, alpha wave, light wave, microwave, acoustic wave and 314 more...
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Written on Water
An eclectic list of words pertaining to and describing water.
"...I am the faithful husband of the rain,
I love the water of wells and springs
and the taste of roofs in the...water, rain, cistern, thirst, dead-water, eddy-water, surge, flood, ebb, fluid, flow, liquor amnii and 202 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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The most awesome words.
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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The Waves
In the water. See also waves-and-waveforms.
comber, groundswell, wavelet, tidal wave, billow, breaker, seiche, mirobia, rolling wave, surge, swell, bow-wave and 40 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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"Weird and Wonderful Words" by Erin McKean
autophoby, autological, aspectabund, blandiose, carriwitchet, choronymy, codology, elaqueate, eagre, eutrapely, expergefaction, exonym and 81 more...
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Week 1
Apr 11 - 14
lilt, jejune, roil, ingress, runnel, eagre, cornice, ovate, truss, eider-down, cresol, stenographer and 5 more...
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"E"-words
ecaudate, ebrious, eagre, ebullition, ecbole, ebrillade, ebberman, ebrietion, eurous, esurience
Tweets
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abraxaszugzwang a wave of unusual height, especially a tidal wave up a narrow estuary. Feb 25, 2007