double-tongue

[ duhb-uhl-tuhng ]

verb (used without object)

, Music.

, dou·ble-tongued, dou·ble-tongu·ing.

1. 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

1. 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

Derived Forms

• double tonguing, noun

Example Sentences

The missionary speaks with a double tongue; he lies; he is a dog, and he must say such words no more!

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The bill shields a double tongue, which gets not only honey, but small insects from the flower or off the leaves.

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A double heart and a double tongue is the fashion of the hypocrite, Psal.

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But another mountain is now the war chief, a mountain that spits fire and lead, that speaks with a double tongue.

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A double-tongue miter is made by cutting on the adjoining edges tongues which engage in each other.

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