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figure n Cp OED eight a, sb 3 figure (of) eight 'anything in the form of an eight.' Comb figure eight: in logging, a chain crossed to form two loops, one of which passes around the 'bunk' of a sled, the other around the load of timber on the cross-beams (1985 Terminology of Loggers 7).

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