Word Meanings - DOUBLEQUICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run; as, a double-quick step or march.

• Quickhatch
  The wolverine.
• DOUBLEBANK
  To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart. To double-bank an oar, to set two men to pulling one oar.
• DOUBLELOCK
  To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.
• QUICKWITTED
  Having ready wit Shak.
• Double-ender
  A vessel capable of moving in either direction, having bow and rudder at each end.
• Double-shade
  To double the natural darkness of (a place).
• Marchpane
  A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar.
• Quicklime
  Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; -- so called because when wet it develops great heat. See 4th Lime, 2.
• DOUBLEBANKED
  Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.
• DOUBLEMILLED
  Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.
• QUICKWITTEDNESS
  Readiness of wit. "Celtic quick-wittedness." M. Arnold.
• Double-entendre
  A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate.
• March-ward
  A warden of the marches; a marcher.
• DOUBLEBARRELEDDOUBLEBARRELLED
  Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun.
• DOUBLEPEDRO
  Cinch (the game).
• Double-eyed
  Having a deceitful look.
• Doublethreaded
  Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.

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