Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Duplicity; deceitfulness.
  • 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.
  • noun A kind of dwarf butcher's-broom, Ruscus Hypoglossum, of southern Europe: so called from the appearance of the cladodes. See Ruscus.

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

  • noun Deceit; duplicity.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb play fast notes on a wind instrument

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

    Handwork in Wood William Noyes

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

    Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

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

    Rebel Spurs Andre Norton 1958

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