aegir

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See also: Aegir, ægir, and Ægir

English

Noun

aegir (plural aegirs)

  1. Alternative spelling of eagre
    • 1906, William Makepeace Thackeray, editor, The Cornhill magazine, volume 21, page 48:
      A dull roar came up stream, up from the sea. Round the bend in the river rose a grey wall of water, the aegir, the tide wave. Swift and roaring it came, ...

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