Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Eight times twenty; one hundred and sixty.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun archaic One hundred and sixty (160).

Etymologies

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eight +‎ score

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Examples

  • "Probably eightscore men of all ages," Lorn muses aloud.

    Scion of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • How could he deal with close to eightscore lancers who knew how to avoid firebolts?

    Colors of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • Then the best archers of the band set up a small wand at eightscore paces distant, and thereon they affixed a wreath of green.

    Robin Hood 1917

  • Our company had been organized at Council Grove -- three trains of twenty-six wagons each, drawn by three or four spans of mules or yoke of oxen, guarded by eightscore of "bull-whackers."

    Vanguards of the Plains Margaret Hill McCarter 1899

  • Then the King muttered in his beard, "Now, blessed Saint Hubert, if thou wilt but jog that rogue's elbow so as to make him smite even the second ring, I will give eightscore waxen candles three fingers'-breadth in thickness to thy chapel nigh Matching."

    The Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle 1882

  • Murtough proceeded to Ard-Macha, and left eight ounces of gold upon the altar, and promised eightscore cows.

    An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

  • Whose throne has stood firm through his eightscore of years,

    The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • Whose throne has stood firm through his eightscore of years,

    The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 07: Songs of Many Seasons Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • So when the queen had mayed, and all were bedecked with herbs, mosses, and flowers in the best manner and freshest, right then came out of a wood Sir Maleagans with eightscore men well harnessed, and bade the queen and her knights yield them prisoners.

    The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • Then came into the field the king of North Wales, with eightscore helms, and King

    The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

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