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Definition of Eagres
1. eagre [n] - See also: eagre
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eagres
Literary usage of Eagres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Physical Geography of the Sea and Its Meteorology by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1869)
"Bores, eagres, and the earthquake wave of ... But,'besides tide-rips, bores, and
eagres,* there are the sudden disruptions in the ice which arctic voyagers ..."
2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1913)
"See aleo names of objects collected eg Antiques: Art—Private collections;
Autographs; Bird eagres; Book collecting; Clocks; Postage stamps; Pottery; ..."
3. Southwestern Historical Quarterly by Texas State Historical Association, Eugene Campbell Barker, Herbert Eugene Bolton, University of Texas at Austin Center for Studies in Texas History (1900)
"... and the lower eagres did not go to kill the buffalo, there were abundant
opportunities for them to have obtained tho skins. Their kindred tribes were ..."
4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... which came from the River, and the most of it was different from the fresh
water fish of Spaine. There was a fish which they called eagres: the third ..."
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