Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having two lungs: specifically applied to the Dipneumones.
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Examples
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I double-lunged a buck at 75 yards with a .270 and crashed to ground with nary a twitch.
Bucking Slug Recoil 2009
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I double-lunged a buck at 75 yards with a .270 and crashed to ground with nary a twitch.
Bucking Slug Recoil 2009
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“I recently added about 20 yards to my effective range,” says Whitetail Addictions coproducer Adam Hays, who double-lunged a 160-inch 8-pointer last year at 58 yards.
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He stopped quartering away at 50 yards, and I double-lunged him.
Bill Heavey's Deer Diary: Success in the Upper Peninsula 2007
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Further, the lungs are double in these modern dipneusts, as in all the other air-breathing vertebrates; they have on that account been called "double-lunged" (Dipneumones) in contrast to the Ceratodus; the latter has only a single lung
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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