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- noun Plural form of
eighth .
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Examples
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TOSS & START POTATOES at 400F (detailed instructions follow) 1 pound Yukon gold potatoes, cut in eighths
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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TOSS & START POTATOES at 400F (detailed instructions follow) 1 pound Yukon gold potatoes, cut in eighths
Roasted Potatoes with Garlic & Pimenton | A Veggie Venture 2005
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Fort Sumter is a modern truncated pentagonal fort, three miles and three-eighths from the city of
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Behind these changes, beginning in 1975, was a zeal to liberate the individual investor from the clutches of the archaic market makers who made a good living taking "eighths"
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(such as eighths or quarters or half, etc.) so that the length can be made 19 units.
Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918
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A source familiar with the incident, speaking on the condition of anonymity because it is still under investigation, said the SUV was "about seven-eighths of the way" into the garage and was stopped "at a weird angle."
Ashley Turton, former Hill aide, dead in burning car Paul Duggan 2011
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Griffin is eight eighths tw@t on October 24, 2009 at 1: 54 pm Gastank
‘Rent A Mob’ Attack Police At BBC TV Centre « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Using lightly greased kitchen shears or a lightly greased, large sharp knife, cut the slab crosswise into twelfths and lengthwise unto eighths to form generous 1-inch marshmallows.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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With jockey Calvin Borel aboard, Super Saver covered three-eighths of a mile in 36.60 seconds.
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Cut the plums into eighths, removing the pits and leaving the skins on.
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