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double eagle
[f. double a. + eagle n. 5.]
1. A gold coin of the value of twenty dollars. U.S.
1849Laws of U.S. concerning Money (1910) 508 For all sums whatever, the double eagle shall be a legal tender for twenty dollars. 1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) 185 There are also double eagles of twenty dollars. 1872E. Eggleston End of World xxvi. 179 He..piled the double-eagles like a fortification in front of him. 1886Harper's Mag. Dec. 36 Then the spokesman took a golden double-eagle from his belt. 1902S. E. White Blazed Trail viii. 61 His wages were twenty-five dollars a month, which his van bill would reduce to the double eagle. 1948P. Johnston Lost & Living Cities Calif. Gold Rush 4l/1 A shower of bright double eagles clattered musically to the floor.
2. An ensign or armorial bearing, esp. in Germany.
1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 45 The Imperial double eagle..in all its ugliness. 1934H. Miller Tropic of Cancer (1948) 279 Goethe was..stamped with the German trade-mark, with the double eagle. 1936Burlington Mag. Sept. 111/2 Besides the owl-jugs proper there exists another..in the form of a double-eagle. Ibid. 112 (caption) Double-Eagle Jug, with the arms of von Khuenburg of Carinthia.
▸ Golf (chiefly U.S.). A score of three under par on a hole; a hole played in three strokes under par; = albatross n. 3. Cf. eagle n. 1d.
1925Washington Post 9 Sept. 17/1 He was then so far in the rear that nothing less than a succession of double eagles would have given him a chance to win. 1975New Yorker 5 May 102/3 Gene Sarazen came through with what stands as unquestionably the most sensational single shot in golf history: the 4-wood second that he holed out for a double-eagle 2 on the 485-yard, par-5 fifteenth. 2004Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 20 May d2 John Wooden once had a hole in one and a double eagle in one round of golf. |