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double_file

double file

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double file (plural double files)

  1. A double line, especially, a queue two persons wide.
    • 1864, United States War Department, The 1864 Field Artillery Tactics, Stackpole Books (2005), ISBN 978-0-8117-0131-0, 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 978-1-44372-891-1, 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, []

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