eight
/eɪt/ numeral A1- A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.
- Describing a group or set with eight elements. · He works eight hours a day.
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“It is eight o’clock now,” I said, glancing at my watch.
They had been seen together at Euston Station about half-past eight on the evening of the third.
This morning I began very early, and at eight o’clock I reached Halliday’s Private Hotel, in Little George Street.
All hands obeyed, and at once the eight or ten seamen who composed the crew, sprang to their respective stations at the spanker brails and outhaul, topsail sheets and halyards, the jib downhaul, and the topsail clewlines and buntlines.
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