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double bank; double-bank verb- to double the number of animals pulling a load AUSTRALIA, 1867
- At one stretch on this 110-mile trek we had to double-bank the team to get through and at times I saw the lead camel actually crawling over the top of the sand hills. — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 173, 1969
- to ride as a second person on a horse, or later, a bicycle AUSTRALIA, 1876
- I’ll double bank with you back to the homestead. — Wendy Lowenstein and Morag Loh, The Immigrants, p. 26, 1977
- to join with someone attacking a third person US
- One day, we double-banked a guy standing at his locker in the area where the wood-shop classes were held. — Nathan McCall, Makes Me Wanna Holler, p. 58, 1994
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