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Meanings of eagre in English

Portuguese
macaréu
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A wave caused by an incoming tide traveling up an estuary.

        macaréu
        Synonyms
        Examples for "eager"
        Examples for "eager"
        1
        Democratic lawmakers were eager to attack health insurers during the overhaul debate.
        Reuters
        2
        However, others hang about waiting in anticipation, eager to continue the night.
        The Irish Times
        3
        To think others shall be just as eager, and we quite indifferent.
        Leaves of Grass
        4
        Modernising armed forces eager to share burden of defending Europe's global interests.
        The Irish Times
        5
        With international prices at record levels, local producers are eager to export.
        Reuters
        1
        Its leap bore it to a point far short of my position.
        The Great Book of Amber
        2
        Both governments bore a large share of the responsibility for what happened.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Others said his comments bore the risk of undoing decades of peace-building.
        Radio NZ
        4
        Prime Minister Jean Castex said it bore the hallmarks of Islamist terrorism.
        Reuters
        5
        The cars bore their national colours, and several of them carried ladies.
        The Irish Times
        1
        He knew the maelstroms and the aegir that swept into northern fiords; the thunder and wind and tempest; the coves, safe harbors and retreats.
        The Warriors
        2
        He appears to have stood in pretty close relation to AEgir.
        The Story of Siegfried
        3
        There was peace in that country then, and Aegir sorrowed, saying:
        Viking Tales
        4
        And then he told Siegfried a story of AEgir and his gold-lit hall.
        The Story of Siegfried
        5
        The Dwellers of Asgard, gathered together in the hall of Ægir, waited for Odin.
        The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths
        1
        Politicians, capitalists and officials are flotsam bobbing upriver on the tidal bore of invention.
        The Rational Optimist
        2
        Still the storm coursed northward like a horizon-spanning tidal bore.
        Night of Knives
        3
        The "secret supermoon" in September will lead to an even bigger tidal bore.
        The South African
        4
        The surge struck the cliff like a tidal bore and was pushed upward, bulging, rising.
        Stonewielder
        5
        A tall bulge of water like a tidal bore, but fast, faster than any wave he'd ever heard of.
        Stonewielder
        Usage of eagre in English
        1
        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.
        A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories
        Translations for eagre
        Portuguese
        macaréu
        Eagre through the time