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double-ˈheader
a. A kind of firework. U.S.
1869Aldrich Story of Bad Boy 92 The smaller sort of fireworks, such as pin-wheels, serpents, double-headers.
b. A railway train having two engines. orig. U.S.
1878A. Pinkerton Strikers 216 ‘Double-headers’, or freight trains composed of a larger number of cars than the single train, and drawn by two engines. 1881Chicago Times 12 Mar., The..express from Chicago started out with a double-header. 1971Sunday Express (Johannesburg) 28 Mar. 24/3 Steam from a ruptured locomotive boiler scalded the flesh off two railmen when their double-header jumped the rails.
c. In baseball, lacrosse, etc., the playing of two games in succession on the same day. N. Amer.
1896Cincinnati Enquirer 30 July 2/2 In case rain should stop to-day's or to-morrow's games double headers will have to be played the next day. 1967Boston Herald 8 May 16/4 Leading the New York Yankees past Kansas City, 8–3, for a split of their Sunday doubleheader. The Athletics won the opener, 4–1. 1968C. Drummond Death & Leaping Ladies iv. 72 The Louisiana Lancers had..won two more double-headers on Wednesday and Thursday. 1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 39/5 The Detroit Tigers won the first game of the doubleheader.
d. Logging. (See quot.) U.S.
1905Terms Forestry & Logging 35 Double header, a place from which it is possible to haul a full load of logs to the landing, and where partial loads are topped out or finished to the full hauling capacity of teams.
e. Gambling. A double-headed coin. Austral. and N.Z.
1948V. Palmer Golconda iv. 26 ‘What's the trouble?’..‘Dirty work. That dago, Joe Comino, trying to ring in a..double-header. Macy Donovan was keeping the [two-up] ring.’ |