Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To work or pull by means of men working in pairs, as an oar or a rope—that is, with two men at one oar, or with men on both sides of the rope.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb (Naut.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
  • transitive verb to set two men to pulling one oar.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb nautical To row (a vessel) by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
  • verb nautical To set two rowers to pulling (a single oar).

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Examples

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  • It's nice to think this is a clever double-bank shot, but I don't think so.

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  • It's dig her out, or double-bank to find the balance due

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  • I will corrupt the organist, bribe the choir, double-bank the preacher in advance, and we will all have a rousing time.

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  • 'We must double-bank my horse,' whispers Jim, 'for a mile or two, till we're clear of the place; we didn't want to bring a lot of horses about.'

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  • The estate has assured them they can bid for the permit waters alone - including four miles of picturesque, double-bank fishing in Canonbie - and if successful they will form an angling club and set about raising money to pay for the lease.

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  • Casillas to get them through and a double-bank shot off the post by David Villa to seal the deal.

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  • (for me, the camel-novice in the army, ‘painful’ would be the fitter word) to ride fifteen hundred miles in thirty days, without fear of starvation; because, even if we exceeded in time, each of us sat on two hundred pounds of potential meat, and the man made camel-less could double-bank another, riding two-up, in emergency.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

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