The Collaborative International Dictionary
Double-banked
Double-banked \Dou"ble-banked`\, a. Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.
Wiktionary
double-banked
vb. (en-pastdouble-bank)
Usage examples of "double-banked".
Grant pointed the bottleneck of the harp in her direction and plucked frantically at the double-banked strings.
Indeed, the Caledonia's bell had time to be struck twice while Jack was talking to her commander before the Admiral's barge was seen to shove off and come racing out, pulling double-banked as though for a wager.
She was standing in with the signal for dispatches flying, Haslar on her larboard bow, Southsea Castle on her starboard beam, when the Admiral's barge, double-banked and pulling hard, came out to meet her.