Definitions for eagre

eagre ea·gre

Spelling: [ee-ger, ey-ger]
IPA: /ˈi gər, ˈeɪ gər/

Eagre is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in eagre (aeegr).

Definitions for eagre

noun

  1. a tidal bore or flood.

Origin of eagre

1640-50; apparently representing earlier agar, ager, obscurely akin to hyger, higre; (compare Anglo-Latin (12th century) higra the tidal bore of the Severn); compared with Old English ēgor, e

Examples for eagre

eagre is the old English word for vinegar, which is just “wine-eagre.”

The tide of fashion was rushing like an eagre "up to the Park."

The other name by which the phenomenon is known, “eagre,” is also of unknown origin.

Dryden, who had noticed it in the river Trent, calls it the "eagre."

Word Value for eagre
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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