Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nautical, having two opposite oars pulled by rowers on the same thwart, or having two men to the same oar: said of a boat.
- Having two tiers of oars and of rowers, one over the other, as ships were worked in antiquity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
double-bank .
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Examples
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The automatic rifles of the troopers began to go off, as well as the rifles, in the immediate vicinity, of the double-banked infantry.
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It is often the case that when a boat is stove, its crew, being picked up by another boat, help to work that second boat; and the chase is thus continued with what is called double-banked oars.
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The ship did handle oddly, Möhrlein's hands and fingers in nearly constant motion across the double-banked consoles, and the impulse engines hummed like a musical instrument, their singing note varying in pitch and intensity as the output shifted fractionally with each change of setting.
Proud Helios Melissa Scott 2000
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There is an old double-banked harpsichord of the early Eighteenth
The House in Good Taste Elsie de Wolfe
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American double-banked frigates and long-gunned brigs.
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger
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In this my experience with father's wherry during the last three or four years stood me in good stead; though I had some little difficulty at first in mastering the usual man-o'-war stroke with the long ash oars in the heavy launch which we pulled, the boat being double-banked.
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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The oars are 16 ft. long, and are pulled double-banked.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various
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Then, some of the negro gang coming on board also to help man the long oars, which, like sweeps, were ranged double-banked along the sides of the launch, she was pulled away slowly from the jetty out towards the
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg
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The officer in charge, having worked up as close as this, had double-banked his oars so as to cover the last, most dangerous zone with a rush, pouring out the carefully conserved energy of his men prodigally in his haste to come alongside.
Flying Colours Forester, C. S. 1938
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Together they lay prone, side by side, with the narrow, double-banked wings beneath the line of their shoulders, and the rudder-tail behind them.
Tarrano the Conqueror Ray Cummings 1922
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