different between eagle vs eagre

English

Etymology

From Middle English egle, from Anglo-Norman egle, from Old French aigle, from Latin aquila. Displaced native Middle English ern, earn, arn, from Old English earn (“eagle”). More at erne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i???l/
• Rhymes: -i???l

Noun

eagle (plural eagles)

1. Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.

   Synonyms: erne, broadwing

2. (US, numismatics, historical) A gold coin with a face value of ten dollars, formerly used in the United States.
3. (historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and circulated in England as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I of England.
4. (golf) A score of two under par for a hole.

Coordinate terms

(golf):

• buzzard
• bogey
• par
• birdie
• albatross
• condor
• ostrich

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (13th-c. counterfeit coin):
  • pollard
  • rosary
  • mitre
  • leonine
  • scalding
  • crockard
  • steeping

Verb

eagle (third-person singular simple present eagles, present participle eagling, simple past and past participle eagled)

1. (golf) To score an eagle.

Translations

Further reading

• Eagle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Aegle, aglee

Danish

Etymology

From English eagle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?i???l]

Noun

eagle c (singular definite eaglen, plural indefinite eagler)

1. (golf) eagle (two under par)

References

• “eagle” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English eagle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?l/

Noun

eagle m (plural eagles)

1. (golf) eagle

Coordinate terms

• bogey
• birdie
• albatros

English

Etymology 1

See eager.

Adjective

eagre (comparative more eagre, superlative most eagre)

1. Obsolete form of eager.
   • 1614, Walter Raleigh, The History of the World, Book III., Chapter VII., page #66:

     How?oeuer it were, the Lacedæmonians being no le??e wearied of the warre, than the Athenians were eagre to pur?ue it, the one obtained their ea?e, and the other the execution and honor which they de?ired : for all the Greekes (tho?e of Peloponme?us excepted) willingly ?ubiected them?elues to the commandment of the Athenians which was both beginning of their greatne??e in that pre?ent age, and of their ruine in the next ?ucceeding.

Etymology 2

Not attested in Middle English; either from Old English ?agor (“water, sea”) or Old Norse ægir (“sea, ocean”), however, both possibilities fail to show the phonological outcome one would expect.

Alternative forms

• aegir, eger, egre, eygre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e???(?)/, /?i???(?)/
• Rhymes: -e???(r), -i???(r)

Noun

eagre (plural eagres)

1. a tidal bore

Translations

Synonyms

• tidal bore, bore

References

• “eagre”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Anagrams

• Eager, aeger, agree, eager, geare, æger