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Definition of Double eagle
1. Noun. (golf) a score of three strokes under par on a hole.
2. Noun. A former gold coin in the United States worth 20 dollars.
Definition of Double eagle
1. Noun. (US currency) A gold coin with a face value of $20.00 formerly used in the United States, the double of the U.S. eagle coin. ¹
2. Noun. (golf) Three under par, one stroke short of an ace (a hole in one) on a par 5 hole. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Eagle
Literary usage of Double eagle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1849)
"And be it further enacted, That for all sums whatever the double eagle ...
in the double eagle, the eagle, and the half eac-l«, one half of a grain, ..."
2. An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and by James Balfour Paul (1893)
"Arg. a double eagle displayed gu., a mullet for difference. ... Or, a double
eagle with wings displayed, surmounted by a galley sa., armed, langued, ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"used to be mine really, but that double eagle took it away; ... He's very angry
with the double eagle about it all, being a great friend of the ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1849)
"That for all sums whatever the double eagle shall be a legal tender for twenty
dollars, and the gold dollar shall be a legal tender for one dollar. Sec. 4. ..."
5. Prehistoric Art; Or, The Origin of Art as Manifested in the Works of by Thomas Wilson, Edwin Porter Upham (1898)
"A double eagle on the fife spreading tho wings, with the tail raised, as if preparing
... The double eagle has but one body and one pair of wings; the tail, ..."
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