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figure-eight en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of figure eight.
For example, the figure-eight would now be performed on only half of a basketball court (Fig. 15-1).
2007, William D. Bandy, Barbara Sanders, Therapeutic Exercise for Physical Therapist Assistants, →ISBN, page 366:The figure-eight is really no more than two circles in different directions.
2012, William Steinkraus, Reflections on Riding and Jumping: Winning Techniques for Serious Riders, →ISBN:One cloudy day the instructors set me up to ride through a very, very tight figure-eight.
2009, Kevin Lane, Fail-Safe for Fallacy, →ISBN, page 19:
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figure-eight en · VERB
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To move or cause to move in a figure eight pattern.
For two minutes we figure-eighted back and forth across the face of the mountain and then popped out right beside the sidewalk café.
1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 61:To prevent the hook from tumbling and coming out of the hoisting eye, a short lanyard on the pea of the counterbalance is figure-eighted around the shank and tip.
1980, Naval Education and Training Program Development Center, Seaman, page 87:When he has been circled or figure-eighted enough times, he will become convinced that he is not to be asked to take the fence.
1974, Harold Black, Manual of Horsemanship:Back and forth across the dim street he gracefully figure-eighted, using only his narrow hips and occasionally one hand to direct the bicycle.
2002, Prudence Mackintosh, Retreads, →ISBN, page 59:
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