double-tongue

double-tongue [duhb-uh l-tuhng] Examples verb (used without object), dou·ble-tongued, dou·ble-tongu·ing. Music.

to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and k alternately, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.

Compare triple-tongue. Examples from the Web for double-tongue Historical Examples of double-tongue

A double-tongue miter is made by cutting on the adjoining edges tongues which engage in each other.

William Noyes

British Dictionary definitions for double-tongue double-tongue verb -tongues, -tonguing or -tongued

music to play (fast staccato passages) on a wind instrument by rapid obstruction and uncovering of the air passage through the lips with the tongueCompare single-tongue, triple-tongue

Derived Formsdouble tonguing, noun