Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A locomotive having either a truck or a pilot at each end: intended to haul trains in either direction without being turned.
- noun A double-pointed file.
- noun Anything with two ends alike, as a boat designed to move forward or backward with equal ease.
- noun A cross-cut sawing-machine, with a pair of adjustable circular saws, for equalizing pieces of stuff by sawing both ends at once.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A vessel capable of moving in either direction, having bow and rudder at each end.
- noun (Railroad) A locomotive with pilot at each end.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical A
vessel capable of moving both forwards and backwards, havingbow andrudder at each end. - noun A
locomotive withpilot at each end. - noun A
dildo designed for penetration by two people simultaneously.
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Examples
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The Uncle Toby's drift took them across the bow and they could not make out the name; but before night they picked up with a small, round-bottom, double-ender boat, swamped but with white lettering visible on its bow.
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It has always been at its best when breaking the mould by pioneering with "As It Happens," the live double-ender interview, "La Petite Vie" or "This Hour Has 22 Minutes."
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The craft was a double-ender, long, narrow, and flat-bottomed, sweeping up at each end in graceful curves and tight as a tick from the looks of the well-fitted overlapping planks.
SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000
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The craft was a double-ender, long, narrow, and flat-bottomed, sweeping up at each end in graceful curves and tight as a tick from the looks of the well-fitted overlapping planks.
SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000
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In this hope he relied much upon the powerful aid of the fleet; but Admiral Lee, ascending in a double-ender, lost his pioneer-boat, the "Commodore Jones" and very nearly his own flag-ship, by a torpedo, opposite Signal Station.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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The Uncle Toby's drift took them across the bow and they could not make out the name; but before night they picked up with a small, round-bottom, double-ender boat, swamped but with white lettering visible on its bow.
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Commander Roe of the _Sassacus_ (a light-draft, pair-paddle, double-ender gunboat) getting at right angles to her, ordered his engineer to stuff the fires with oiled waste and keep the throttle open.
Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray William Charles Henry Wood 1905
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So he ordered the flagship _Hartford_ and her lashed-together consort, the double-ender
Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray William Charles Henry Wood 1905
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The _Uncle Toby's_ drift took them across the bow and they could not make out the name; but before night they picked up with a small, round-bottom, double-ender boat, swamped but with white lettering visible on its bow.
A Son Of The Sun Jack London 1896
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The Siberian and Russian delegates, who, of course, felt a keen interest in the company's proceedings, took a magnetic double-ender car to Bering Strait.
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