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Double-ender   Listen
noun
Double-ender  n.  
1.
(Naut.) A vessel capable of moving in either direction, having bow and rudder at each end.
2.
(Railroad) A locomotive with pilot at each end.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Double-ender" Quotes from Famous Books



... unspeakable gratification to record the death of that double girl who has been in everybody's mouth for months. This shameless little double-ender, with two heads and one body-two cherries on a single stem, as it were-has been for many moons afflicting our simple soul with an itching desire that she might die-the nasty pig! Two half-girls, joined squarely at the waist, and without any ...
— The Fiend's Delight • Dod Grile
... has come, the saddest of the year. He is a moral double-ender, iron-clad at that. He is unpleasant in two ways. He burrows in the ground so that you can not find him, and he flies away so that you can not catch him. He is rather handsome, as bugs go, but utterly dastardly, in that he gnaws the ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) • Various
... necessary for an attack on the Federal blockading squadron with any reasonable prospect of success, and Tucker therefore turned his attention to attacks by means of torpedo-boats fitted out from his squadron. On the 5th of October, 1863, Lieutenant W.T. Glassell, with a small double-ender steam torpedo-boat, made an attempt to sink the New Ironsides, lying off Morris' Island. The New Ironsides was not sunk, but she was seriously damaged and was sent North for repairs. The torpedo-boat was filled with water, ...
— Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker • James Henry Rochelle


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