TRIPLE-TONGUE


Meaning of TRIPLE-TONGUE in English

/trip"euhl tung'/ , v.i. , triple-tongued, triple-tonguing . Music.

to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, esp. in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument. Cf. double-tongue .

[ 1900-05 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .