# eagre

Pronunciation: US say "AY-gur" /ˈeɪɡɚ/; UK say "AY-guh" /ˈeɪɡə/

## Noun

1. A wave or wall of water that surges upstream along a river as an incoming tide meets the outflowing current.
   - Simple: A large wave that travels up a river when the rising sea tide pushes against the flow.
   - _Surfers traveled from across the country to ride the eagre as it raced upstream._
   - _On certain rivers, eagres can reach several feet in height during the highest tides._

## Adjective

Pronunciation: US say "EE-gur" /ˈiɡɚ/; UK say "EE-guh" /ˈiːɡə/

2. Obsolete form of eager. *(obsolete)* — Obsolete form of eager.
   - Simple: Obsolete form of eager. It is an old spelling that people no longer use.

## Origin

The word is not attested in Middle English. It is thought to derive either from Old English *ēagor ("water, sea"), seen in ēagorstrēam, or from Old Norse ægir ("sea, ocean"); however, both possibilities fail to show the phonological outcome one would expect.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/eagre (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).