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  • verb rail transport to operate a train with a locomotive at each end
  • verb rail transport to operate a train, especially a multiple unit, with a driver at each end of the train for fast turnaround times

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Examples

  • He usually takes a 60-minute group class on Wednesdays and Saturdays that incorporates speed bags, heavy bags and double-end bags, which look like speed bags fastened to the floor and ceiling by a cord and are designed to increase speed and decrease reaction time.

    A CEO Steps Up Weight Loss By Exercising His Inner ‘Rocky’ By Jen Murphy 2009

  • “Yeah, I know all about the dinner,” Jake returned in words with more stretch in them than the rubber connection of his double-end striking bag.

    Hearts STEF ANN HOLM 2001

  • “Yeah, I know all about the dinner,” Jake returned in words with more stretch in them than the rubber connection of his double-end striking bag.

    Hearts STEF ANN HOLM 2001

  • “Yeah, I know all about the dinner,” Jake returned in words with more stretch in them than the rubber connection of his double-end striking bag.

    Hearts STEF ANN HOLM 2001

  • “Yeah, I know all about the dinner,” Jake returned in words with more stretch in them than the rubber connection of his double-end striking bag.

    Hearts STEF ANN HOLM 2001

  • One of the cylinders projects above the upper horizontal timber and has fitted over it, as a key, a long double-end sweep.

    The Bontoc Igorot Albert Ernest Jenks 1911

  • I'll get a double-end bag so I can work with it in our garage.

    PhilBoxing.com - XML News RSS/RDF Feed 2010

  • Fernandez, who works Pacquiao's corner with Roach, advised Chua to work on the double-end bag in the gym.

    PhilBoxing.com - XML News RSS/RDF Feed 2010

  • I also watched him work with the double-end bag and jump rope.

    PhilBoxing.com - XML News RSS/RDF Feed 2010

  • A flurry of bolo styled uppercuts emphasized the level of this two-fisted beat down in the second and Hatley resembled a fighter hitting the double-end bag in the third, with a shoeshine flurry in younger Roy Jones-like fashion.

    BoxingScene.com 2010

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