double-bank

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English

Verb

double-bank (third-person singular simple present double-banks, present participle double-banking, simple past and past participle double-banked)

  1. (nautical) To row (a vessel) by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
  2. (nautical) To set two rowers to pulling (a single oar).

Derived terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “double-bank”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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