EAGLEHAWK

eaglehawk, a borough of bendigo county, victoria, australia, 105 m. by rail n.n.w. of melbourne and 4 m. from bendigo, with which it is connected by steam tramway. pop. (1901) 8130. it stands on the bendigo gold-bearing reef, and its mines are important. eagre (a word of obscure origin; the earliest form seems to be _higre_, latinized as _higra_, which william of malmesbury gives as the name of the bore in the severn; the _new english dictionary_ rejects the usual derivations from the o. eng. _eagor_ or _egor_, which is seen in compounds meaning "flood," and also the connexion with the norse sea-god _aegir_), a tide wave of great height rushing up an estuary (see bore), used locally of the humber and trent.