Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In octagonal form.
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- adverb In an
octagonal manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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We had wheels, to be sure, but they were not spherical as they have since become, and were made out of stone blocks weighing ten or fifteen tons apiece, and hewn octagonally, so that a ride over the country roads in
The Autobiography of Methuselah John Kendrick Bangs 1892
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Prospect, a street which runs from the Admiralty to the Monastery of St. Alexander Nevsky, is nearly three miles in length and for the greatest part of the way floored with small blocks of wood shaped octagonally.
Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society George Henry Borrow 1842
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Bibens feeds the waste -- called "biomass" -- into an octagonally shaped metal barrel where it is cooked under intense heat, sometimes above 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, the organic matter is cooked through a thermochemical process called "pyrolysis".
CNN.com 2009
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The Nibbia Chapel, located in the present grounds of the Evans Building, was a domed, octagonally-shaped building and is known so after Fra ...
timesofmalta.com 2009
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