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Today it means: A double tide, particularly a high tide in which the water rises to a given level, recedes, and then rises again (or only the second of these high waters), but sometimes equally a low tide in which the water recedes to a given level, rises, and then recedes again Full definition →

Middle English agger ← Latin agger

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Latin · derived fromagger“earthwork, rubble, rampart”
Middle English · inherited fromagger“heap, pile”
English todayagger

From Middle English agger (“heap, pile”), from Latin agger (“earthwork, rubble, rampart”), from ad- (“toward, towards”) + gerere (“to carry”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.