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double-tongue
[ duhb-uhl-tuhng ]
verb (used without object)
- to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and k alternately, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
double-tongue
verb
- music to play (fast staccato passages) on a wind instrument by rapid obstruction and uncovering of the air passage through the lips with the tongue Compare single-tongue triple-tongue
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Derived Forms
- double tonguing, noun
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Example Sentences
The missionary speaks with a double tongue; he lies; he is a dog, and he must say such words no more!
The bill shields a double tongue, which gets not only honey, but small insects from the flower or off the leaves.
A double heart and a double tongue is the fashion of the hypocrite, Psal.
But another mountain is now the war chief, a mountain that spits fire and lead, that speaks with a double tongue.
A double-tongue miter is made by cutting on the adjoining edges tongues which engage in each other.
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