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double-header
noun
- a train drawn by two locomotives coupled together to provide extra power
- Also calledtwin bill sport two games played consecutively by the same teams or by two different teams
- informal.a coin with the impression of a head on each side
- informal.a double ice-cream cone
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Along about three-forty o'clock, they made up a freight train to go out called a double-header—two engines attached to the train.
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They said they had no double-header order to be rescinded, but they were bound to get back this reduction of ten per cent.
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You went up there to help to take out the train—a double-header?
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A lot of the police jumped on the train to help take it out—a double-header.
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This double-header, on Thursday, I believe, was thirty-six cars and two locomotives?
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