agger
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Also called double tide. Oceanography.
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a high tide in which the water rises to a certain level, recedes, then rises again.
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a low tide in which the water recedes to a certain level, rises slightly, then recedes again.
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(in ancient Roman building) an earthen mound or rampart, especially one having no revetment.
noun
Etymology
Origin of agger
1350–1400; Middle English: heap, pile < Latin: rubble, mound, rampart, equivalent to ag- ag- + -ger, base of gerere to carry, bring
Example Sentences
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They were set into an arch of one of the great stairs leading to the avenue or boulevard established in Imperial times on the top of the agger of Servius.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
A wooden structure or agger had been raised by the Romans to overtop the walls, which had proved impregnable to the assaults of the battering-ram.
From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
The agger had been burnt and the siege towers destroyed.
From Caesar: a Sketch by James Anthony Froude
They sallied out against the other tower and agger, and fought with more confidence.
From "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries by Julius Caesar
The temple which represents the body of the snake is formed by a circular agger of earth having its ditch withinside.
From The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion by Eliza Burt Gamble
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