eight
/eɪt/ noun C2- The digit/figure 8.
- Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
- A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.
- A race in which such craft participate.
- The eight people who crew a rowing-boat.
- Eight o'clock.
Plural eights
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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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