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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary);
[syn: tidal bore, bore, eagre, aegir, eager]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Eagre \Ea"gre\, n. [AS. e['a]gor, ?gor, in comp., water, sea, e['a]gor-stre['a]m water stream, sea.] A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore or tidal bore. See Bore. Ealderman
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

tidal bore n 1: a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) [syn: tidal bore, bore, eagre, aegir, eager]