单词 | double-ender |
释义 | double-endern. 1. Anything having two ends alike; spec. a kind of gunboat rounded fore and aft. U.S. ΚΠ 1865 Star 3 Feb. The double-ender Sassacus..caught one of the shells..which carried away the skylight of the cabin. 1871 R. A. Proctor Light Sci. 219 The United States double-ender ‘Wateree’. 18.. Amer. Antiquarian IX. 370 It may be styled a double-ender spear, for each extremity of it is pointed in an identical manner. 2. A cross-cut sawing-machine, with two adjustable circular saws, for sawing both ends of timber. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1865 |
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