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Double-ender   Listen
noun
Double-ender  n.  
1.
(Naut.) A vessel capable of moving in either direction, having bow and rudder at each end.
2.
(Railroad) A locomotive with pilot at each end.





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"Double-ender" Quotes from Famous Books



... come, the saddest of the year. He is a moral double-ender, iron-clad at that. He is unpleasant in two ways. He burrows in the ground so that you cannot find him, and he flies away so that you cannot catch him. He is rather handsome, as bugs go, but utterly dastardly, in that he gnaws the stem of the plant close to the ground, ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
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