eighteen
noun
a cardinal number, ten plus eight.
eighteens
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pluralof eighteen.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“Ooh wee! Yo, Benny, we got steel and eighteens on this one!” he shouted like he was talking about a car.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
The sailors fought nobly, using their heavy long twelves and eighteens with great effect.
From The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 by W. C. Jackson
They had long eighteens upon their forecastles, and their broadside guns were composed of twelves and sixes.
From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger
The whole number of cannon mounted on the fortress was thirty-one, of these, nine were French twenty-sixes; six English eighteens; nine twelve and seven nine pounders.*
From The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms
Six long twenty-fours of the new make, here in front, and two eighteens upon either flank, and I should like to see the whole of the Boulogne flotilla try to take yonder shore by daylight.
From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
