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double-ˈender
1. Anything having two ends alike; spec. a kind of gun-boat rounded fore and aft. U.S.
1865Star 3 Feb., The double-ender Sassacus..caught one of the shells..which carried away the skylight of the cabin. 1871Proctor Light Sc. 219 The United States double-ender ‘Wateree’. 18..Amer. Antiquarian IX. 370 (Cent.) It may be styled a double-ender spear, for each extremity of it is pointed in an identical manner.
2. A cross-cut sawing-machine, with two adjustable circular saws, for sawing both ends of timber. |