Definitions for agger

agger ag·ger

Spelling: [aj-er]
IPA: /ˈædʒ ər/

Agger is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in agger (aeggr).

Definitions for agger

noun

  1. Also called double tide. Oceanography. a high tide in which the water rises to a certain level, recedes, then rises again. a low tide in which the water recedes to a certain level, rises slightly, then recedes again.
  2. (in ancient Roman building) an earthen mound or rampart, especially one having no revetment.

adjective, noun

  1. agriculture:

Origin of agger

1350-1400; Middle English: heap, pile Latin: rubble, mound, rampart, equivalent to ag- ag- + -ger, base of gerere to carry, bring

Examples for agger

Back to back with the equites extraordinarii are the infantry of the same, facing the agger at the rear of the whole camp.

The agger was most commonly made of trunks of trees, crossed and heaped up like the timber in a funeral pile.

He asked where the men of agger were, and Steinar told him what he had done.

In some places the agger is above three foot raised from the surface.

Passing under the arch, turn to the left, there are some remains of the agger.

Even some of the men of agger were there, who had come to pay homage to their new lord.

Behind the custom-house is a fine piece of the agger and the Porta Viminalis.

But the Romans had two words, agger the embankment, and vallum the palisading on the top of it.

Athalbrand would not suffer it till he was sure of the matter of the lordship of agger.

The next thing that I remember is the coming of the men of agger.

Word Value for agger
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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