Obs. [? f. OE. ǽl eel + gár spear. Cf. Fl. aalgeer, elger, instrumentum dentibus mucronatum, quo anguillæ figuntur. H. Hettema in Trans. Phil. Soc., 1858, p. 145.] An eel-spear: see ELGER.
a. 1500. MS., in Promp. Parv., 186. Contus, an algere, a shaft, a dartt, a polloure. Fuscina, a hoke for fysshe, an algere.
