double-headed

English

Adjective

double-headed (not comparable)

  1. Having two heads.
    a double-headed serpent
    double-headed muscles
    • 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:
      The arms of the City of Perth are mounted on the breast of a double-headed eagle, from which the single-headed eagle of the railway arms was derived.
    • 2005, Ashish Pandey, Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Music, page 212:
      Doli: Georgian double-headed cylindrical drum
  2. (numismatics) Of a coin, having a head on both sides, especially when counterfeited by being constructed from two separate coins.
  3. (rail transport) Of a train, hauled by two locomotives.
    Related terms: triple-headed
  4. (film) Synonym of sepmag (“having separately recorded picture and soundtrack”).

Derived terms

Verb

double-headed

  1. simple past and past participle of double-head
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