Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having eight corners; octagonal.
  • noun An octagon or an octagonal solid.
  • To make octagonal.

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Examples

  • It includes graduations in hundredths, thirty-seconds, sixteenths, twelfths, tenths, and eighths of an inch, also a brace-measure, an eight-square measure, and the Essex board-measure.

    Handwork in Wood William Noyes

  • In chamfering a four-square stick into an eight-square, the piece may be gripped in the vise diagonally, Fig. 273, or it may be held in a trough made of two strips of wood from each of which an arris has been chamfered and then the two nailed together, Fig. 274.

    Handwork in Wood William Noyes

  • Lancaster seeks to annex an eight-square mile area near Lancaster Municipal Airport.

    PegasusNews.com stories 2010

  • Lancaster seeks to annex an eight-square mile area near Lancaster Municipal Airport.

    PegasusNews.com stories 2010

  • Lancaster seeks to annex an eight-square mile area near Lancaster Municipal Airport.

    PegasusNews.com stories 2009

  • The cloister, and the chapter-house adjoining to the church, are the finest here of any I have seen in England; the latter is octagon, or eight-square, and is 150 feet in its circumference; the roof bearing all upon one small marble pillar in the centre, which you may shake with your hand; and it is hardly to be imagined it can be any great support to the roof, which makes it the more curious (it is not indeed to be matched, I believe, in Europe).

    From London to Land's End 2003

  • The cloister, and the chapter-house adjoining to the church, are the finest here of any I have seen in England; the latter is octagon, or eight-square, and is 150 feet in its circumference; the roof bearing all upon one small marble pillar in the centre, which you may shake with your hand; and it is hardly to be imagined it can be any great support to the roof, which makes it the more curious (it is not indeed to be matched, I believe, in Europe).

    From London to Land's End 2003

  • The cloister, and the chapter-house adjoining to the church, are the finest here of any I have seen in England; the latter is octagon, or eight-square, and is 150 feet in its circumference; the roof bearing all upon one small marble pillar in the centre, which you may shake with your hand; and it is hardly to be imagined it can be any great support to the roof, which makes it the more curious (it is not indeed to be matched, I believe, in Europe).

    From London to Land's End 2003

  • The cloister, and the chapter-house adjoining to the church, are the finest here of any I have seen in England; the latter is octagon, or eight-square, and is 150 feet in its circumference; the roof bearing all upon one small marble pillar in the centre, which you may shake with your hand; and it is hardly to be imagined it can be any great support to the roof, which makes it the more curious (it is not indeed to be matched, I believe, in Europe).

    From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman" Daniel Defoe 1696

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