Definition of "nigher" []

• Comparative form of nigh: more nigh (adjective)

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• "On the Little Pelly, for instance, they come down that thick in the summer to feed on the salmon that you can't get an Indian or white man to go nigher than a day's journey to the place."
• "Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher"
• "Sigmund said that he had come no nigher to the aid of a man though the youngling were with him."