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higre

higre is the obsolete form of eagre.

Meaning of eagre

Noun

eagre (plural eagres)

  1. a tidal bore
    • A large wave like an eagre, diverging from its bow, was extending to either bank, swamping the tules and threatening to submerge the lower levees.1896, Bret Harte, In a Hollow of the Hills: and Other Tales, page 210
    Synonyms:
    tidal bore, bore

Forms of higre

pluralhigres

Questions about higre

What is higre the obsolete form of?
Higre is the obsolete form of eagre.

Words near higre in the dictionary

  1. Hignite
  2. Hignites
  3. Higonnet
  4. Higonnets
  5. higonokami
  6. higre
  7. higres
  8. higry-pigry
  9. HIGs
  10. Higson
  11. Higton

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Adapted from Wiktionary: higre (page history and authors); eagre (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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