eagre

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

See eager.

Their silence did not lead me to suspect anything, though I knew that the Eagre had once been the Mohawk. — Twenty-Five Ghost Stories, Unknown
As we met the roaring eagre we felt the engine leap, as Schwartz's hesitation left him and he opened the throttle. — Aladdin & Co.: A Romance of Yankee Magic, Herbert Quick
And the mill with its booming--the great chestnut-tree under which they played at houses--their own little river, the Ripple, where the banks seemed like home, and Tom was always seeing the water-rats, while Maggie gathered the purple plumy tops of the reeds, which she forgot and dropped afterward--above all, the great Floss, along which they wandered with a sense of travel, to see the rushing spring-tide, the awful Eagre, come up like a hungry monster, or to see the Great Ash which had once wailed and groaned like a man--these things would always be just the same to them. — The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886, Ontario. Department of Education

tidal bore, bore, aegir, eager

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