Definition of Double tongue

1. Verb. Play fast notes on a wind instrument.

Exact synonyms: Triple-tongue
Category relationships: Music, Music
Generic synonyms: Tongue

Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Tongue

double stops
double straddle
double straddles
double switch
double tachycardia
double take
double taker
double talk
double tap
double taps
double team
double tertian
double tertian malaria
double thymidine block
double time
double tongue (current term)
double top
double trap
double up
double vertical line
double vision
double whammies
double whammy
double whole note
double whole notes
double yellow line
double yellow lines
doublecheck
doublechecked

Literary usage of Double tongue

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"Greater Adders - tongue, with a pointed Leaf, and a double Tongue. 5. ... Middle Adders tongue, with a blunt Leaf, and a double Tongue. 6. ..."

2. The Chief American Poets by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"United States ! the ages plead, — Present and Past in under-song, — Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue. зо For sea and land ..."

3. Bible Readings on the Double Heart and Kindred Truths .. by Frank E. Morehouse (1898)
"THE double tongue. Perhaps some of my readers have not noticed the double ... Now this double tongue does not mean two physical tongues, but using the one ..."

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