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n. - A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).

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  • Agar (the Humber eagre), and this year each fond father dreads lest his daughter will be chosen for the victim.
  • Friday The 13th was the nail in the coffin - the movie was so eagre to both reinvent itself and cater to fans at the same time that it completely forgot to remind us why...
  • eagre is the old English word for vinegar, which is just "wine-eagre."
  • Then we are caught into the primal beauty of earth, and life flows in upon us like an eagre.
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