Word Meanings - DOUBLE-BREASTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, a double-breasted coat.

• LAPPONIANLAPPONIC
  Laplandish; Lappish.
• Breastplow
  Alt. of Breastplough
• Double-charge
  To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder.
• Double-milled
  Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.
• Lapponic
  Laplandish; Lappish.
• DOUBLEENDER
  A locomotive with pilot at each end. Knight.
• Breastplough
  A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf.
• Double dealer
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person.
• Doubleminded
  Having different minds at different times; unsettled; undetermined.
• Foldage
  See Faldage.
• DOUBLEENTENDRE
  A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate.
• Breastrail
  The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.
• Double dealing
  False or deceitful dealing. See Double dealing, under Dealing.
• Doubleness
  The state of being double or doubled.
• BREASTDEEP
  Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast. See him breast-deep in earth, and famish him. Shak.
• DOUBLEEYED
  Having a deceitful look. [R.] "Deceitful meanings is double- eyed." Spenser.

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