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double file en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A double line, especially, a queue two persons wide.
    • There are three double files of stalked glands, one along each leaf margin, roughly speaking, and two rows along the under leaf surface, […] 1942, Francis Ernest Lloyd, The Carnivorous Plants, READ BOOKS (publisher, 2007), page 100
    • In marching by double file, four abreast, etc., elbows touch and no lagging should be allowed. 1891, Nettie D. Kimberlin, in Annual Report of the Controller of the City of Detroit of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Corporation, The Smith Printing Co., page 30
    • The column marching in double file, the instructor commands: […] 1864, United States War Department, The 1864 Field Artillery Tactics, Stackpole Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 120:

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Translations (2)

pl linia podwójna (double line) · fi parijono (double line)