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Definition of Agger
1. n. An earthwork; a mound; a raised work.
Definition of Agger
1. Noun. A high tide in which the water rises to a given level, recedes, and then rises again. ¹
2. Noun. A low tide in which the water recedes to a given level, rises, and then recedes again. ¹
3. Noun. In ancient Roman building, an earthwork; a mound; a raised work. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Agger
1. a mound of earth used as a fortification [n -S]
Medical Definition of Agger
1. An eminence, projection, or shallow ridge. Origin: L. Mound (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agger
Literary usage of Agger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Archaeology of Rome by John Henry Parker (1874)
"The whole of this description might very well apply to the agger and wall of ...
It should be observed that Pliny mentions the agger of Tarquinius Superbus ..."
2. Transactions by Glasgow Archaeological Society, British Pomological Society (1903)
"afforded by the ground, the protecting south agger the second best line, varying
in distance ... If the south agger had been built independently before the ..."
3. A Residence in Jutland, the Danish Isles, and Copenhagen by Horace Marryat (1860)
"CHAPTER XLL The agger Canal— Food of the peasants — The girl' who trod upon bread.
agger CANAL. THE weather was too rough for us to return by ..."
4. A Treatise on Ore Deposits by Bernhard von Cotta, Frederick Prime (1870)
"agger VALLEY.1 § 119. In the neighborhood of the agger valley, northerly of
Siegburg, I observed a large number of lodes iu the Lenne slates, whose breadth ..."
5. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, James Norris Brewer, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Frederic Shoberl, Joseph Nightingale, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, John Bigland, John Evans, Thomas Rees (1802)
"The west agger is very conspicuous and lofty ; the southern one is on the edge
of a high ridge, and distinct, the stones and mortar in many parts breaking ..."
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