double file
English
Noun
double file (plural double files)
- A double line, especially, a queue two persons wide.
- 1864, United States War Department, The 1864 Field Artillery Tactics, Stackpole Books (2005), →ISBN, page 120:
- The column marching in double file, the instructor commands: […]
- 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:
- In marching by double file, four abreast, etc., elbows touch and no lagging should be allowed.
- 1942, Francis Ernest Lloyd, The Carnivorous Plants, READ BOOKS (publisher, 2007), →ISBN, page 100:
- There are three double files of stalked glands, one along each leaf margin, roughly speaking, and two rows along the under leaf surface, […]
- 1864, United States War Department, The 1864 Field Artillery Tactics, Stackpole Books (2005), →ISBN, page 120:
Translations
double line
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Anagrams
- biofuelled, double life