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单词 double-header
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double-headern.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: double adj.1, head n.1, -er suffix1.
Etymology: < double adj.1 + head n.1 + -er suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: double-ˈheader.
1. A kind of firework. U.S.
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1869 T. B. Aldrich Story Bad Boy 92 The smaller sort of fireworks, such as pin-wheels, serpents, double-headers.
2. A railway train having two engines. Originally U.S.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > pulled by two locomotives
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1878 A. Pinkerton Strikers 216Double-headers’, or freight trains composed of a larger number of cars than the single train, and drawn by two engines.
1881 Chicago Times 12 Mar. The..express from Chicago started out with a double-header.
1971 Sunday 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.
3. In baseball, lacrosse, etc., the playing of two games in succession on the same day. North American.
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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > game or definite spell of play > series of games
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1896 Cincinnati 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.
1967 Boston 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.
1968 C. Drummond Death & Leaping Ladies iv. 72 The Louisiana Lancers had..won two more double-headers on Wednesday and Thursday.
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 39/5 The Detroit Tigers won the first game of the doubleheader.
4. Logging. (See quot. 1905) U.S.
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1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 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.
5. Gambling. A double-headed coin. Australian and New Zealand.
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1948 V. 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.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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