double-manned

I don't think my father liked cutting trees, which in those days was done by hand, with big double-manned bandsaws.

Language Makes the Senses One 2003

I don't think my father liked cutting trees, which in those days was done by hand, with big double-manned bandsaws.

Language Makes the Senses One 2003

Our spies along the beach had reported the coast clear of cruisers when I sailed, so that I hardly anticipated danger from men-of-war; nevertheless, we held it discreet to avoid intercourse, and accordingly, our double-manned sweeps were rigged out to impel us slowly towards the open ocean.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

Four days and nights we rowed down the great river, our oars double-manned, for fear that our coming might be heralded to the French towns.

The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909

Four days and nights we rowed down the great river, our oars double-manned, for fear that our coming might be heralded to the French towns.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

Four days and nights we rowed down the great river, our oars double-manned, for fear that our coming might be heralded to the French towns.

The Crossing 1904

"Yes, sir," said Mr. James, and moved to the other angle of the wharf, for he had caught the word "pirates;" and now, for some reason, the ship had cast her anchor, a hundred yards outside the dock, while to it from her side a double-manned yawl was rowing.

Pirate Gold Frederic Jesup Stimson 1899

_The Mahmoud_ was double-manned, as she carried a full extra crew sent on an educational cruise on the most perfectly scientifically equipped warship on service in the

The Lady of the Shroud Bram Stoker 1879

The oars were double-manned, but nothing would avail; and all the time the cry of the men on the wrecked vessel sounded through the storming of the gale.

The Romance of the Coast James Runciman 1871

"Yea, yea," quoth Richard, laughing, "ye shall be double-manned then in this good town: ye may well win, unless the sight of you shall make the foe over fierce for the gain."

The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865