"number eight" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-number eight.ogg [Australia] Forms: number eights [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} number eight (plural number eights)
  1. (rugby) A player in the scrum, who controls the movement of the scrum, and can pick up the ball exiting the scrum; eighthman. Categories (topical): Rugby Translations (rugby player who controls the movement of the scrum): vazač [masculine] (Czech)
    Sense id: en-number_eight-en-noun-w8xwcbF8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 54 46 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 52 48 Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, rugby, sports Disambiguation of 'rugby player who controls the movement of the scrum': 78 22
  2. (cricket) The batsman who bats eighth. Categories (topical): Cricket, Eight Coordinate_terms: number one, number two, number three, number four, number five, number six, number seven, number nine, number ten, and so on
    Sense id: en-number_eight-en-noun-w0~y18yQ Disambiguation of Eight: 31 69 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 54 46 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 52 48 Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports

Inflected forms

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