Definition of "double-tongue" []

• To play a rapidly repeated series of notes on a wind instrument by placing the tongue alternately between the positions for t and k. (verb-intransitive)

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• "A double-tongue miter_, Fig. 268, is made by cutting on the adjoining edges tongues which engage in each other."
• ""Divide them Lord & from them pul thier devilish double-tongue.""
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