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1. A gold coin of the value of twenty dollars. U.S.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > North American coins > U.S.
quarter dollar1615
bit1683
quarter1776
cent1782
dollar1785
dime1786
eagle1786
half-dollar1786
half-eagle1786
sharpshin1804
picayune1805
caser1825
pic1839
double eagle1849
slug1851
hog1859
pine tree money1859
martin bita1884
meter1940
1849 Laws of U.S. concerning Money (1910) 508 For all sums whatever, the double eagle shall be a legal tender for twenty dollars.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 185 There are also double eagles of twenty dollars.
1872 E. Eggleston End of World xxvi. 179 He..piled the double-eagles like a fortification in front of him.
1886 Harper's Mag. Dec. 36 Then the spokesman took a golden double-eagle from his belt.
1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail viii. 61 His wages were twenty-five dollars a month, which his van bill would reduce to the double eagle.
1948 P. Johnston Lost & Living Cities Calif. Gold Rush 4l/1 A shower of bright double eagles clattered musically to the floor.
2. An ensign or armorial bearing, esp. in Germany.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > heraldic birds
eaglec1380
swana1400
phoenix?a1425
pelicana1430
ravena1450
merlette1451
popinjayc1460
eagletc1494
merliona1500
martletc1519
merlion?a1549
spread eagle1550
meropie1572
spread eaglet1602
alerion1625
liver1668
shoveller1780
eagle in her majesty?1828
double eagle1861
hirondelle1880
pelican in her piety1885
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 413 The Imperial double eagle..in all its ugliness.
1934 H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 246 Goethe was..stamped with the German trade-mark, with the double eagle.
1936 Burlington Mag. Sept. 111/2 Besides the owl-jugs proper there exists another..in the form of a double-eagle.
1936 Burlington Mag. Sept. 112 (caption) Double-Eagle Jug, with the arms of von Khuenburg of Carinthia.
Draft additions January 2005
Golf (chiefly U.S.). A score of three under par on a hole; a hole played in three strokes under par; = albatross n. 4. Cf. eagle n. 9.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > scoring
half1881
par1887
bird1906
birdie1906
eagle1909
double eagle1925
albatross1932
hole in one1935
bogey1946
double bogey1954
1925 Washington Post 9 Sept. 17/1 He was then so far in the rear that nothing less than a succession of double eagles would have given him a chance to win.
1975 New Yorker 5 May 102/3 Gene Sarazen came through with what stands as unquestionably the most sensational single shot in golf history: the 4-wood second that he holed out for a double-eagle 2 on the 485-yard, par-5 fifteenth.
2004 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 20 May d2 John Wooden once had a hole in one and a double eagle in one round of golf.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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