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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To play a rapidly repeated series of notes on a wind instrument by placing the tongue alternately between the positions for t and k.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Duplicity; deceitfulness.
  2. In music, in playing the flute and certain brass instruments, like the cornet, to apply the tongue rapidly to the teeth and the hard palate alternately, so as to insure a brilliant execution of a staccato passage.
  3. n. A kind of dwarf butcher's-broom, Ruscus Hypoglossum, of southern Europe: so called from the appearance of the cladodes. See Ruscus.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Deceit; duplicity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. play fast notes on a wind instrument

Examples

  • “A double-tongue miter_, Fig. 268, is made by cutting on the adjoining edges tongues which engage in each other.”

    Handwork in Wood

  • “Divide them Lord & from them pul thier devilish double-tongue.”

    Sabbath in Puritan New England

  • “Mix it up with these Converse Chuck Taylor double-tongue shoes.”

    dealspl.us

  • “We ain’t givin’ you any double-tongue wag over this — —”

    Rebel Spurs

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