Hypertext Webster Gateway: "eagre"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Eagre \Ea"gre\, n. [AS. e['a]gor, ?gor, in comp., water, sea,
e['a]gor-stre['a]m water stream, sea.]
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}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
eagre
n : a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by
colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) [syn: {tidal
bore}, {bore}, {aegir}, {eager}]
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