Wiktionary
1 Having two ends. 2 (context rail transport of a train English) to have a locomotive at each end 3 (context rail transport of a multiple unit English) to have a driving cab at each end 4 (context rail transport of a train or multiple unit English) to have a driver at each end v
(en-pastdouble-end)
Usage examples of "double-ended".
Platt said to the backs of the spacers who'd walked past him toward the ferrya double-ended tub, originally a barge for carrying bulk cargo.
She shared the double-ended, hammerhead hull of all impeller-drive warships, but she was a haze gray instead of the white both the RMN and PN favored, and instead of a hull number, her name was emblazoned just aft of her forward impeller ring in red-edged, golden letters at least five meters tall.
She shared the double-ended, hammerhead hull of all impeller-drive warships, but she was a haze gray instead of the white both the RMN and PN favored, and instead of a hull number, her name was emblazoned just aft of her forward impeller ring in red-edged golden letters at least five meters tall.
She shared the double-ended, hammerhead hull of all impeller-drive warships, but she was a haze gray instead of the white both the RMN and PN favored, and instead of a hull number, her name was emblazoned just aft of her forward impeller ring in red- edged, golden letters at least five meters tall.
They were ships of the old Norse type, double-ended with high curved stems and sternposts, mostly decorated with dragons' heads and tails.
It surprised them that it looked very much like the old ferryboats—an oval-shaped, double-ended affair with a lower platform for cars, and stairways up both sides to the upper deck, where the twin pilothouses, one at each end of the boat, flanked a passenger lounge of some sort with a large single stack rising right up the middle.
She ran forward to look where the missile had fallen, and found there a pure double-ended quartz crystal, the colour of water and clear ice.
It was like having a double-ended Sword of Damocles hanging over his head, and now, obviously, something about Terekhov bothered him deeply.
By command of Olegnya Mingolsbane, acting without consultation with his overlord, regiments of black-clad soldiers were rushed at the double from Tovilyis, Kartishla, even Land's End, and issued on the way weapons and items of uniform which puzzled them mightily and made them sneer more than ever at their quartermasters and at the effete and fantasy-minded Lankhmar military bureaucracy: long-handled three-tined forks, throwing balls pierced with many double-ended slim spikes, lead-weighted throwing nets, sickles, heavy leather gauntlets and bag-masks of the same material.